230K–270K USD / year
Staff Backend Engineer, Licensing
BackendRemote — United States
Published on 2026-10-30
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About this role
Provide hands-on technical leadership for backend services that manage product packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement. Lead cross-service initiatives and help ensure licensing rules and customer access remain correct, scalable, and reliable.
About the company
Horizon3.ai is a technology company specializing in cybersecurity solutions, focusing on automated penetration testing and threat detection for enterprises. They provide a range of services aimed at enhancing security posture and risk management for organizations across various sectors.
The team
Licensing, Usage & Entitlements team within Engineering.
Stack
PythonGoJavaTypeScriptSQLDockerKubernetesPostgreSQL
What you'll do
- Set technical direction for services managing purchases, packaging, capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits.
- Design licensing and access workflows for direct and partner accounts.
- Lead complex cross-service initiatives while contributing hands-on.
- Establish practices for data correctness, safe migrations, API evolution, observability, and production support.
- Partner with Product and Engineering on requirements, integrations, and customer-impacting tradeoffs.
- Mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and technical writing.
- Resolve difficult production issues and reduce recurring operational burden.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including backend services and APIs.
- Track record of leading architecture or technical direction for production-critical systems.
- Strong SQL, relational data modeling, distributed systems, and service reliability experience.
- Experience building and operating backend services in a modern language.
- Experience with cloud-hosted services and containerized applications.
- Ability to influence cross-team decisions, mentor engineers, and communicate design rationale clearly.
Nice to have
- Experience with licensing, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing-adjacent workflows, or feature access controls.
- Multi-tenant SaaS, account hierarchies, RBAC, or partner account model experience.
- Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, or event-driven systems.
- Familiarity with Kafka, Temporal, Prefect, or production observability platforms.
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave