Engineering Manager (Tripwires)

Horizon3.ai
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 225,000 - 265,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Technical communication","Collaboration","Ownership","Facilitation"]

Lead the engineering team behind Tripwires for the NodeZero platform, designing and scaling decoy and deception capabilities that generate trustworthy detection and alerts. Partner with Product to sequence the roadmap and expand coverage, collaborate with the Attack team to translate offensive findings into new detections, and drive operational excellence across SLOs, observability, on-call, and incident response. Recruit, mentor, and retain engineers focused on distributed systems craft and security outcomes.

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Engineering Manager (Tripwires)

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering team behind Tripwires for the NodeZero platform, designing and scaling decoy and deception capabilities that generate trustworthy detection and alerts. Partner with Product to sequence the roadmap and expand coverage, collaborate with the Attack team to translate offensive findings into new detections, and drive operational excellence across SLOs, observability, on-call, and incident response. Recruit, mentor, and retain engineers focused on distributed systems craft and security outcomes.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the delivery strategy for Tripwires, including decoy/deception development, detection, alerting, and the customer-facing experience.
  • •Partner with Product to sequence the roadmap and expand Tripwires coverage.
  • •Recruit, mentor, and retain engineers who value distributed systems craft and the security domain.
  • •Oversee design of new tripwire types that are attractive to attackers and indistinguishable from legitimate assets.
  • •Drive operational excellence with SLOs, observability, on-call, incident response, and team practices like design reviews and durable decision records.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 225,000 - 265,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDentalParental LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Experience managing backend, data, or platform engineering teams and shipping through the team.
  • •Strong fundamentals in backend and distributed systems, including data modeling, API design, and queues/streams.
  • •Comfort with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containers, and observability tooling such as Datadog.
  • •Ability to lead through technical ambiguity and facilitate design discussions to convergence.
  • •Clear written communication for roadmaps, design docs, and postmortems; working knowledge of deception tech (honeypots, honeytokens, canaries).
Experience:CybersecurityPentestingMSSPsDeception technology
Skills:LeadershipTechnical communicationCollaborationOwnershipFacilitation
Tech Stack:AWSDatadogContainersAPI designQueues/streamsKafkaPulsarKinesisFlinkPythonGoObservabilityIncident response

Company Brief

Horizon3.ai
Builds NodeZero®, an autonomous penetration-testing platform that continuously finds, prioritizes, and verifies exploitable vulnerabilities across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments to help organizations reduce security risk.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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