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Lead Horizon3’s federal compliance program for DoW IL4 and IL5 AWS offerings. Manage FedRAMP and NIST SP 800-53 frameworks, authorization assessments, System Security Plans, continuous monitoring, audits, risk assessments, policies, training, vendor questionnaires, and external auditor relationships. Advise engineering teams on translating federal requirements into cloud-native technical controls and participate in compliance-related incident response. The role is fully remote, requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a government security clearance, and involves up to 5% travel.

Administer Federal Okta, Slack, and Google Workspace environments; manage identity lifecycle, permissions, SSO integrations, shared drives, and secure communication channels. Provide remote front-line support, troubleshoot access and software issues, and document procedures. Support commercial IT operations, align Federal and commercial workflows, conduct access audits, and assist with security investigations and compliance audits.

Lead the technical direction for internal-network and Active Directory attack capabilities in an autonomous penetration-testing platform. Research emerging AD tradecraft, develop production-grade Python attack content, validate techniques in representative test environments, extend attack-path models, set research priorities, mentor engineers, and collaborate on product development and customer-facing technical content.

Own go-to-market strategy, positioning, launches, messaging, content, sales enablement, and performance measurement for Horizon3’s internal and cloud pentesting portfolio. Translate complex cybersecurity capabilities into credible value propositions for technical practitioners and executive buyers. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and partners to drive pipeline, adoption, expansion, competitive differentiation, and measurable risk reduction. Use market intelligence, customer feedback, analytics, and field insights to continuously improve marketing programs.

Leads Horizon3’s product marketing function, strategy, positioning, launches, enablement, content, customer adoption, team development, AI-assisted marketing operations, and performance measurement. Partners across Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Revenue Operations, and Communications to drive category leadership, pipeline, revenue, adoption, and retention for the NodeZero cybersecurity platform.

Build and operate real-time, event-driven microservices that process large-scale penetration-testing telemetry into findings, attack paths, reports, and customer insights. Responsibilities include migrating batch logic to streaming architectures, designing distributed systems, managing schemas and storage, correlating hosts and identities, ensuring observability and operational excellence, and contributing to technical design, APIs, documentation, and incident response.

Design, build, and own business-critical data infrastructure, including AWS Glue and Spark pipelines, cloud warehouse or lakehouse systems, orchestration, and Tableau BI platforms. Define event-driven contracts, data models, schemas, observability, and batch or streaming architectures across multi-tenant, multi-region environments. Collaborate across producer and consumer teams while owning production data infrastructure and outcomes end to end.

Administer global sales compensation programs from participant setup through monthly commission payouts. Calculate, validate, and reconcile commissions; maintain plans and documentation; support accounting accruals, audits, and deferred commission schedules. Resolve commission inquiries, assist with system testing and plan implementations, improve processes and reporting, and partner with Revenue Operations, Sales, Finance, and HR to optimize variable compensation and SPIFF programs.

Lead and grow a team focused on web application discovery, crawling, and attack surface enumeration. Set technical direction, improve discovery coverage and reliability, oversee benchmark and regression testing, and translate gaps into roadmap priorities. Partner with Product, Engineering, penetration testing teams, architects, and customers to address discovery issues across modern web applications, including SPAs, authentication flows, APIs, and dynamic routing. Coach engineers, manage performance, support hiring, and balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth.

The Senior Backend Engineer develops core product features in ETL and GraphQL, designs APIs, builds ETL pipelines, and collaborates with frontend teams.