Software Engineer – Backend, Core Services

🕒 May 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Censys

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • Data

Censys is a leading Internet Intelligence Platform that specializes in Threat Hunting and Attack Surface Management. It provides security teams with a comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the internet to defend against attacks and hunt for threats. Censys offers solutions for Cloud Asset Discovery, Exposure and Risk Management, and External Attack Surface Management. Its proprietary Internet Map delivers detailed insights and extensive internet scanning capabilities, allowing organizations to continuously monitor internal and external attack surfaces. Founded by the creators of ZMap at the University of Michigan, Censys is deeply rooted in the security open source community and boasts a large internet intelligence community. Censys empowers organizations, including those in financial services, government, and healthcare, to act swiftly against evolving threats and protect their internet-facing assets effectively.

📋 Description

• Implement and extend services that deliver new core platform functionality. • Support authentication, authorization, and analytics capabilities alongside the team. • Build, test, deploy, and monitor a distributed set of services. • Partner with product, design, and other engineering teams to ship features end-to-end. • Help evolve the Censys public API as platform capabilities grow. • Improve developer experience for internal teams and external API consumers. • Own small-to-medium features from technical design through launch, with increasing independence; participate in design discussions with guidance from senior engineers. • Share on-call responsibilities for your areas and handle straightforward incidents with team support as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience writing backend services in Go (Golang). • Foundational understanding of distributed systems and common operational challenges. • General knowledge of database design and typical access patterns. • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS or GCP). • Strong collaboration, communication, and analytical troubleshooting skills. • A track record of delivering well-defined work at high quality, knowing when to ask for clarification or help, and learning quickly from mistakes.

🏖️ Benefits

• equity • health, dental & vision coverage • retirement with company contribution • parental leave • mental health & wellness benefits • flexible PTO • professional development stipend