Manager, Attack Engineering

Horizon3.ai
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 235,000 - 280,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Cross-functional communication","Strategic execution","Customer focus"]

Lead the External Attack Engineering organization driving production-safe, autonomous offensive capabilities in the NodeZero platform. You’ll manage and grow Attack and Full-Stack Engineers, set technical direction and quality standards, and oversee end-to-end attack methodologies for external attack surface scenarios spanning public infrastructure, SaaS platforms, identity layers, and enterprise software. Partner closely with Product and Design to translate field insights into roadmap and productized, high-signal customer outcomes.

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Manager, Attack Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead the External Attack Engineering organization driving production-safe, autonomous offensive capabilities in the NodeZero platform. You’ll manage and grow Attack and Full-Stack Engineers, set technical direction and quality standards, and oversee end-to-end attack methodologies for external attack surface scenarios spanning public infrastructure, SaaS platforms, identity layers, and enterprise software. Partner closely with Product and Design to translate field insights into roadmap and productized, high-signal customer outcomes.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and grow a team of Attack and Full-Stack Engineers specializing in the external attack surface, including commercial and SaaS platforms.
  • •Set technical direction, priorities, and quality standards for external offensive capabilities, mentoring engineers and driving hiring and scaling.
  • •Own offensive strategy and guide development of end-to-end attack methodologies (discovery through verification) across external/public infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, identity, and enterprise commercial software.
  • •Partner with Product and Design to translate field insights into prioritized roadmap input and productized capabilities, including UI/UX for external attack surface and perimeter breach scenarios.
  • •Oversee high-impact customer engagements and technical briefings, ensuring clear articulation of exploitability, business impact, and remediation.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 235,000 - 280,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDentalParental LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years leading offensive security, red team, or attack engineering teams.
  • •Experience managing teams of 6–10+ engineers and scaling organizations.
  • •Strong expertise in external/public-facing infrastructure attack surfaces, enterprise SaaS, and externally-facing enterprise commercial software, plus identity and access abuse.
  • •Deep understanding of common misconfigurations and exploitation paths, including system-level compromise and lateral movement in enterprise commercial software.
  • •Strong software engineering background (Python preferred) with experience in APIs, cloud automation, infrastructure tooling, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Experience:Offensive securityRed teamingAttack engineeringCybersecuritySaaSCloud
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCross-functional communicationStrategic executionCustomer focus
Certifications:OSCPCloud securitySaaS security
Tech Stack:NodeZeroPythonAPIsCloud automationInfrastructure toolingCI/CDTerraformCloudFormationGitInfrastructure-as-codeDark webOpen-source intelligenceAI/LLM

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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