Senior Backend Engineer, Licensing

US, Remotefull timeRemotesenior$230k–$270kH1B: no

horizon3ai Senior Backend Engineer at horizon3ai leads technical direction for services managing NodeZero packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement. The role involves designing robust models and workflows for licensing and access rules across direct and partner accounts.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Licensing, Usage & Entitlements team, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership for the services that manage NodeZero packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement. You’ll shape how these business-critical capabilities scale across direct and partner accounts, and help ensure that the right products, capabilities, and limits are represented consistently. You’ll lead complex initiatives that cross service boundaries and customer-account models, setting patterns for data correctness, safe evolution, and production support. You’ll partner across Product and Engineering while remaining deeply involved in implementation and operational outcomes.
Set technical direction for services that represent customer purchases, packaging, enabled capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits.
Design robust models and workflows that apply licensing and access rules consistently across direct and MSP/MSPP accounts.
Lead complex initiatives across services and customer-account models, remaining hands-on in implementation.
Establish patterns for data correctness, safe migrations, API evolution, observability, and production support.
Partner with Product and other engineering teams on requirements, integration points, and tradeoffs affecting customer access and usage.
Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and clear technical writing.