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$255,000–$295,000/yr
Global

  • Set long-term technical direction for enterprise platform capabilities including licensing, entitlements, account administration, and MSP workflows.
  • Guide architecture for multi-tenant services, account models, permissions, and asset allocation across customer and partner accounts.
  • Mentor senior engineers, drive cross-team technical initiatives, and ensure production reliability through observability and safe rollout practices.

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$229,500–$260,000/yr
US

  • Own the integration architecture for all Partner Integrations connectors: auth, event delivery, retry, mapping, observability.
  • Deliver high-complexity integrations with security and ITSM platforms like CrowdStrike, Splunk, and ServiceNow.
  • Mentor engineers and own incident response for complex integration failures from diagnosis to fix.

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity firm whose NodeZero platform provides autonomous pentesting to find and fix attack vectors. The team blends former special ops operators and startup engineers, with a culture of respect, collaboration, and ownership.

$199,000–$235,000/yr
US

  • Design, build, and operate backend services and workflows that provision customer accounts and activate product entitlements.
  • Own projects from technical design through release, observability, and production support.
  • Build reliable asynchronous workflows with safe retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.

Horizon3 builds NodeZero, an autonomous pentesting platform that helps organizations find, fix, and verify exploitable attack vectors. The remote team of former special ops operators and engineers values respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

$249,000–$367,000/yr
US 4w PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Lead and coach a team of back end engineers building policy, billing, and ledger platforms.
  • Provide architectural guidance for scalable, secure, high-performing systems.
  • Partner with Product, Program, and engineering leadership to align technical execution and delivery.

Quanata is a remote-first technology company in the State Farm family, building core policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms. It supports a veteran-friendly culture with wellness benefits, professional development, and a focus on engineering excellence.

US

  • Design, build, and maintain integrations between NodeZero and partner platforms, owning assigned integrations end to end.
  • Implement reliable integration patterns for authentication, event delivery, retries, pagination, and schema mapping.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and partner teams to clarify requirements and communicate progress and risks.

Horizon3 is a cybersecurity company offering the NodeZero autonomous pentesting platform to help organizations find and fix attack vectors. It is a fast-growing, remote team of security operators and engineers with a culture of respect, collaboration, and ownership.

$230,000–$334,000/yr
North America

  • Set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Infrastructure Services, balancing reliability, security, cost, and speed.
  • Define the patterns, standards, and guardrails across compute, network, edge, and stateful services.
  • Serve as an escalation point for incidents and drive organization-wide improvements to reliability and cost efficiency.

1Password is a cybersecurity company building enterprise password management and Unified Access Management to secure identities, applications, and devices. Trusted by over 180,000 businesses, it has a remote-first culture focused on collaboration, curiosity, and high performance.

$195,000–$280,000/yr
US 4w PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable back end services and APIs for Quanata's products.
  • Architect data flows, database schemas, and cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability and security.
  • Mentor engineers and shape technical decisions across complex features from concept to deployment.

Quanata is a technology company in the State Farm family, building products and services for the financial and insurance sectors. It is a remote-first organization that values veterans, supports professional growth, and offers comprehensive benefits.

$225,250–$265,000/yr
US

  • Lead the Partner Integrations team shipping NodeZero's first-party security integrations.
  • Own the integration roadmap, API contracts, and certification pipeline.
  • Grow a 6-7 engineer team and drive reliability and backwards compatibility.

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity company providing the NodeZero autonomous pentesting platform to help organizations find and fix attack vectors. The team is a fusion of special ops cyber operators and engineers, with a culture of respect, collaboration, and ownership.

North America

  • Take deep ownership of key systems and product areas, becoming the technical expert and primary point of reference.
  • Architect, build, and maintain highly available and scalable REST APIs and backend services.
  • Use agentic development workflows and AI coding tools as standard engineering practice.

This partner company builds an AI-driven e-commerce messaging platform powered by customer context and data. It is a high-growth, remote-first environment with a collaborative and supportive culture.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Take deep ownership of systems and product areas, becoming the go-to technical expert for what you own.
  • Architect, build, and maintain highly available, scalable REST APIs and backend services across distributed systems.
  • Build agentically with AI coding tools, staying at the forefront of emerging AI tooling and practices.

Postscript is an AI messaging platform for Shopify brands, helping e-commerce marketers drive revenue through SMS marketing and AI features. Backed by Greylock and Y Combinator, the company has been fully remote since 2018 and serves 20,000+ Shopify brands with a culture of ownership and AI-first development.

$185,000–$280,000/yr
North America Unlimited PTO

  • Architect and scale multi-region, high-availability AWS infrastructure for mission-critical payment systems.
  • Drive automation and resilience through GitOps, IaC, and deep observability to eliminate manual toil.
  • Act as a technical leader, influencing engineering practices and mentoring teams to accelerate platform adoption.

VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization, building the trust infrastructure for agentic commerce and processing billions of transactions monthly. They are a remote-first company with a culture that values high agency, ownership, and mission-critical accountability, and are trusted by Fortune 500 companies and innovative fintechs.

US

  • Design, build, and operate scalable, secure microservices powering Cyderes' security platform with minimal oversight.
  • Deploy to AWS, GCP, or Azure with Terraform and run containerized workloads on Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Improve automated testing and CI/CD, review code, and mentor teammates while keeping security in mind.

Cyderes builds practical Identity & Access Management (IAM), Exposure Management, and risk programs, providing Managed Detection & Response (MDR) powered by its Meridian entity fabric. It is a Great Place to Work-Certified global team that helps organizations stop active threats fast with people, platforms, and perspectives.

$116,800–$127,750/yr
North America Unlimited PTO

  • Build and operate backend services that move data through GrowthLoop, from warehouse queries to downstream systems.
  • Improve event handling, query execution, and delivery, and support the product’s move toward real-time capabilities.
  • Participate in on-call rotation, fix reliability issues, and build shared tools that reduce repeated work.

GrowthLoop built the first composable CDP, helping marketers leverage live, first-party data from their cloud warehouse to launch highly targeted campaigns. It is a founder-led, remote-first startup with a flat, high-agency culture, partnering with brands like Google, Costco, and Ford.

$180,000–$250,000/yr
North America Unlimited PTO

  • Build tooling for performance analysis and observability so teams can make data-driven decisions.
  • Partner with product, infrastructure, and security teams to solve scaling and performance challenges across boundaries.
  • Identify systemic issues, anticipate scaling bottlenecks, and raise the technical bar through design reviews and mentorship.

Turnkey builds programmable guardrails for the autonomous economy, enabling organizations to operate with autonomy and control. Founded by the team behind Coinbase Custody, the company is a small, low-ego, high-agency team of cryptography, security, and systems experts.

$171,000–$192,000/yr
US

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable systems for space domain awareness.
  • Automate deployment, monitoring, and incident response to ensure high service reliability.
  • Collaborate with development teams to streamline deployment and enhance product reliability.

LeoLabs builds the living map of space with a global radar network and AI analytics, tracking over 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit. The company is a trusted partner for defense and space operators, with a mission-driven culture.

US Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Design and build paved paths for privileged access and secrets management on top of access management and secret storage platforms.
  • Build self-service tooling, SDKs, and Terraform modules to enable just-in-time access and short-lived credentials.
  • Partner with engineering teams to integrate security services into Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud environments across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo.

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that operates a multi-sided marketplace connecting consumers, merchants, and dashers. They are building a large, inclusive team focused on empowering local economies.

$150,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Design and build shared platform capabilities, owning architecture and delivery of reusable backend services and integrations.
  • Direct implementation by writing specifications and delegating to AI agents, stepping into code when complexity demands.
  • Engineer for reuse, compatibility, and testability, owning testing strategy and building reliability and observability into the platform.

ComPsych is the worldwide leader in organizational mental health, well-being, and absence management, dedicated to igniting human potential in workplaces across the globe. With over 40 years of experience, they serve more than 75,000 customers worldwide, touching over 160 million lives, and 40% of the Fortune 500 choose them for their mental health needs.

US UK Canada Unlimited PTO 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Own features end-to-end from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
  • Design, build, and evolve backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC APIs) for entitlement, policy, and customer onboarding services.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers.

Chainguard delivers hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software to help organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. It is venture-backed by leading investors and serves Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders.

$92,880–$131,760/yr
Spain

  • Own and deliver quarterly technical goals for the Communications area, solving ambiguous problems in messaging infrastructure.
  • Design and scale reliable backend services for high-volume communications across multi-region, multi-tenant environments.
  • Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering partners while mentoring teammates and supporting on-call rotation.

Affirm is a financial technology company providing a clear, predictable way to pay over time with no hidden fees. It is a remote-first organization focused on care, transparency, and flexibility, with fully subsidized health coverage and flexible time off.

North America

  • Build and maintain software-defined, declarative infrastructure for compute at scale.
  • Improve the compute scheduler and resource-management systems, including placement, prioritization, and preemption.
  • Collaborate with networking, orchestration, and SRE teams on integration, design reviews, and on-call rotations.

ServiceNow provides an AI platform that connects any AI, data, and workflows to help enterprises work smarter. The company serves 85% of the Fortune 500 and fosters an AI-native culture built on innovation and trust.

Canada

  • Strengthen platform security by remediating vulnerabilities, hardening container images, and enforcing policy-as-code.
  • Manage Kubernetes infrastructure, authentication services, and AWS cloud operations at scale.
  • Automate infrastructure with Python, Go, Terraform, and AI-assisted workflows to improve reliability.

The company provides secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure for services used by millions globally. It fosters an inclusive, collaborative culture and works with cross-functional teams to continuously improve.