Senior Engineering Manager, Database Platform

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$242k–$275k

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horizon3ai Senior Engineering Manager at horizon3ai leading the Database Platform team responsible for NodeZero's core data infrastructure. Oversees design, operation, and reliability of PostgreSQL and Neo4j data stores at scale.

Responsibilities

Team Building & Culture: Hire, mentor, and grow the Database Platform team to full capacity. Establish database engineering norms and a culture of ownership for engineers who share responsibility for the most critical data layer in our stack.
Data Architecture: Partner with the Principal Engineer to define the technical direction for NodeZero's data platform — schema design standards, query patterns, migration strategies, and scalability principles.
Reliability & Operations: Own SLOs for database availability, query latency, and data integrity across production environments. Drive oncall maturity and runbook quality.
Data Modeling & Schema Governance: Establish schema review processes and data modeling standards. Ensure NodeZero's data model evolves cleanly as new pentest capabilities ship.
Cross-team Partnership: Collaborate with Data Ingestion, Security Research, and API Platform teams to align on data contracts, API design, and pipeline dependencies.
Act as a Product Owner: Translate data platform needs from Security Research and Product into a clear, prioritized engineering roadmap.
What You'll Bring
Data Platform Leadership & Architecture
Demonstrated experience leading teams that design, scale, and operate relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and hybrid data stores (graph, time-series, or document) in production at scale.
Experience defining schema migration strategies for high-velocity production environments with zero-downtime requirements.
Experience with multi-tenant data architectures: customer data isolation, row-level security, and data residency concerns.
Strong understanding of database performance: query optimization, indexing strategies, EXPLAIN analysis, and connection pooling.

Qualification

Background in cybersecurity dataWe are a fully remote company

Preferred

Background in cybersecurity data, threat intelligence feeds, or vulnerability databases.
Experience with data platform compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP, or GDPR/CCPA data handling requirements.
Familiarity with analytical query patterns: BI tooling, OLAP workloads, or customer-facing analytics.
Experience operating databases in multi-region or active-active configurations.
We are a fully remote company, and this job may require up to 5% of travel to be successful.