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🏄 California, New York, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $170k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems 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

• Design, build, and maintain static and dynamic file analysis pipelines processing artifacts at scale • Maintain and optimize YARA rule sets and tooling for rule testing, performance, and false-positive management • Operate and extend threat indicator enrichment systems for real-time metadata extraction, scanning, and enrichment • Build and grow threat graph intelligence systems modeling relationships between indicators, malware, infrastructure, and actors • Design and maintain dynamic analysis sandboxing/detonation capabilities with behavioral telemetry and safe execution environments • Build ingestion and normalization pipelines connecting Censys scan data with external threat intelligence feeds • Instrument pipelines for reliability and observability, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and SLAs • Partner with threat research and detection engineering teams to translate analytical needs into scalable systems • Maintain secure handling and isolation practices for malicious samples and analysis environments • Document architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures • Build and operate pipelines and platforms powering Censys threat detection and intelligence capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience • 6+ years building security data pipelines, detection engineering systems, or threat intelligence platforms • Experience with Synapse or other graph-based threat intelligence platforms, including graph data modeling • Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go • Working knowledge of static and dynamic malware analysis tooling and pipelines • Experience with distributed data pipelines, message queues such as Kafka and RabbitMQ, and data stores such as Elasticsearch and S3 • Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for isolated execution environments • Demonstrated experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure infrastructure and highly available production systems • Demonstrated use of LLM-based coding harnesses and agent-based development workflows such as Claude Code or Copilot • Experience with Synapse, MISP, OpenCTI, or other TIP platforms • Familiarity with STIX/TAXII • Experience working with internet-wide scan data • Open source contributions to security tooling • CI/CD experience applied to detection content • Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security/compliance frameworks • Hands-on experience authoring and managing YARA rules at scale • Experience with Strelka or comparable file scanning frameworks

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility / annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles • Equity • Health, dental & vision coverage • Retirement with company contribution • Parental leave • Mental health & wellness benefits • Flexible PTO • Professional development stipend • Location-specific benefits for employees outside the US • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities • In-person onboarding visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan