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.

Own resolution of difficult production problems and drive improvements that reduce recurrence and operational burden.

What You’ll Bring

Ability to set technical direction for complex, business-critical systems and align partners around clear tradeoffs.

Strong judgment balancing data correctness, scalability, maintainability, customer impact, and delivery speed.

Excellent communication and collaboration across engineering and Product, including clear written design rationale.

Staff Backend Engineer, Licensing

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Benefits

Company

horizon3ai

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