Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Distributed Systems

🕒 April 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $137k - $175k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 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

• Build large scale, real-time streaming services and applications which leverage our massive datasets to power internal APIs and external applications. • Own the design and development phases of backend services and APIs that power the data platform that is our Internet Map. • Own planning activities to ensure we’re building the right things, by collaborating with engineering and product teams. • Leverage your experience of architecture and design to build various parts of the system, including components like: messaging queues, databases, ingestion pipelines, caching layers, and services that run in the cloud or on-prem.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience writing distributed systems (i.e. data ingestion pipelines, databases, services) • Experience with object-oriented programming - we use Go • Experience with at least one cloud provider, like: AWS, Azure, or GCP • Experience with message queue technologies, like: AWS Kinesis , Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other • Proficient with databases, like: BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra, or other • Proficient at building scalable, distributed systems • Know when and where to utilize AI • Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability • Possess strong communication skills and can explain technical concepts to other engineers and product managers.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401k match • health • vision • dental • more! Please see our careers page for more details.