horizon3ai - Engineering Manager, Internal Attack

• Leadership & Team Development • Lead, coach, and grow a team of Attack Engineers and backend engineers focused on internal network attacks, from Active Directory to Linux hosts, databases, and network infrastructure. • Own hiring for the team: shape the open roles, run interview loops, and close strong offensive and backend engineers in a competitive market. • Set clear expectations by level, give direct and timely feedback, run 1:1s and performance reviews, and build growth plans that move engineers to the next level. • Develop technical leaders on the team, including Staff and Principal engineers, so that domain expertise and review ownership are shared rather than held by one person. • Be accountable for the performance and quality of the team's work and for keeping it aligned with Product and Engineering goals. • Internal Attack Strategy & Execution • Define the team's strategy and roadmap for internal and AD attack coverage, tied to department goals, real customer environments, and emerging tradecraft. • Drive coverage for modern, hardened environments: attacks that still succeed under NTLM deprecation, enforced SMB and LDAP signing, Kerberos-only authentication, Protected Users, and tiered administration. • Guide work across the internal attack chain: credential access, Kerberos and delegation abuse, NTLM coercion and relay, AD Certificate Services, SCCM and other management planes, ACL and GPO abuse, lateral movement, and hybrid identity pivots into Entra ID. • Guide coverage beyond Active Directory: Linux and Unix hosts (SSH, NFS), databases (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Elasticsearch), and network infrastructure and embedded devices (SNMP, Cisco, Juniper, printers, IP cameras). • Own the discovery foundation the rest of the attack chain depends on: host discovery, service and OS fingerprinting, and credential and secrets discovery across hosts and file shares, at the scale of networks with hundreds of thousands of addresses. • Push the team to build AI agents where they make NodeZero better at internal attacks. • Own the team's production-safety standards, including account lockout safety and customer account exclusions, safe handling of fragile network devices and production databases, artifact cleanup, and safe defaults for any action that changes a customer system. • Set engineering standards for code review, testing, lab-based regression testing, and observability so attack content stays reliable as NodeZero scales. • Run execution: break the roadmap into scoped work, balance new coverage against reliability fixes and customer escalations, and deliver on commitments. • Product & Cross-Functional Partnership • Partner with Product to turn customer feedback, field findings, and threat intelligence into prioritized roadmap input, including in areas without a dedicated PM. • Direct the team's backend work on NodeZero's attack-path graph and data model so new identity, privilege-escalation, and lateral-movement paths show up correctly in customer results, and coordinate with Data Platform, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams to land the cross-team changes this depends on. • Partner with peer Attack Engineering teams on shared infrastructure, cross-domain attack paths, and consistent engineering standards. • Customer & External Impact • Own the team's on-call rotation and serve as the escalation point for internal-attack customer issues: drive triage and root cause, turn recurring issues into durable fixes, and communicate exploitability, impact, and remediation clearly. • Support customer briefings, go-to-market enablement, and external research such as blog posts and conference talks. • Application Note • In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.