Engineering Manager, EDR

Horizon3.ai

. Lead the EDR remediation team .

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $225,250 - $265,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading backend engineering teams within SaaS and cybersecurity environments, focusing on EDR workflows, operational discipline, and stakeholder management. Capable of translating ambiguous goals into actionable deliverables while maintaining quality standards under pressure.

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EDR ExpertiseBackend Engineering LeadershipStakeholder ManagementSecurity Best PracticesEvent-Driven Architecture

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Hard Skills

Backend EngineeringSaaS DevelopmentSecurity OperationsProduct DeliveryDependency ManagementIncident ResponseDesign ReviewQuality AssuranceScope ManagementDetection Engineering

Soft Skills

MentoringTeam GrowthCollaborationCommunicationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

KafkaPulsarKinesisFlinkLLM-Backed Systems

Industry Keywords

CybersecurityCloud-Scale EnvironmentsMulti-Tenant SaaSOperational DisciplineAgentic Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudCyber SecurityKafkaPulsar

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the EDR remediation team
Lead, mentor, and grow backend engineers and security practitioners with deep EDR expertise
Establish clear career paths for team members
Turn EDR workflows into buildable requirements and usable product capabilities
Partner with a staff-level technical lead on architecture
Partner with Product on roadmap and sequencing
Translate ambiguous goals into sequenced, deliverable work
Actively manage scope
Stay technically engaged to challenge assumptions and unblock the team without serving as the primary implementer
Establish operational discipline through design review, release practices, on-call, and incident response
Own hiring, team growth, and how the team works together as it scales

Requirements

What you’ll need

Familiarity with EDR or security operations sufficient to partner effectively with domain experts
Proven experience leading highly technical backend or platform engineering teams, ideally in SaaS, cybersecurity, or cloud-scale environments
Track record delivering products under a fixed date with ambiguous requirements and actively managed scope
Strong dependency and stakeholder management across many engineering teams
Understanding of security and reliability best practices in multi-tenant SaaS
Experience partnering with a staff-level technical lead
Ability to maintain a quality or safety bar under schedule pressure and escalate scope tradeoffs
Preferred: familiarity with agentic or LLM-backed systems in production
Preferred: background in security operations, detection engineering, or offensive security
Preferred: experience leading a platform team serving internal engineering teams
Preferred: exposure to event-driven architectures or streaming platforms such as Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, or Flink

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles
Health, vision and dental insurance for you and your family
Flexible vacation policy
Generous parental leave
Career development opportunities
Inclusive and collaborative work culture
Remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location