Director, Pentest Platform

Responsibilities

• Leadership & Strategy:
• Product Ownership:
• Technical Depth:
• Stay hands-on enough to guide architectural decisions around data models, orchestration patterns, and data pipeline design. Mentor technical leads in building resilient, distributed systems that power NodeZero's core testing infrastructure.
• Team Building:
• Build, mentor, and scale three diverse engineering teams focused on infrastructure, platform automation, and data engineering. Foster a culture of collaboration, operational excellence, and systems thinking that bridges infrastructure and product perspectives.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and GTM to align platform roadmap with business priorities and offensive capabilities. Ensure reliable, scalable delivery of pentest execution infrastructure that enables rapid innovation in attack content and customer value.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams in platform or infrastructure development, ideally within a fast-paced startup or growth-stage environment.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, platform architecture, and large-scale automation, with hands-on experience in system design, orchestration, data pipelines, or infrastructure automation.
• Demonstrated success taking platform or infrastructure products from concept to market, including driving architectural decisions, POCs, and production launches at scale.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, containerization, orchestration frameworks, data processing pipelines, and large-scale SaaS infrastructure, with the ability to guide complex architectural decisions.
• A product-oriented mindset, skilled at balancing technical excellence, operational reliability, customer impact, and speed to market.
• Exceptional leadership and collaboration skills-experienced in managing managers, aligning cross-functional teams, and partnering effectively with Product, Engineering, and GTM stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving abilities-capable of translating complex platform engineering concepts into clear, actionable direction for teams and stakeholders.
• High degree of initiative and ownership; creative, detail-oriented, and results-driven.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Required Tech Stack Experience
• Deep expertise in distributed systems design, inc

Benefits

Additional Information

Get to Know Us Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find, fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by IT Ops/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs. We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers & operators, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools and false positives, resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox" security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

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