Senior Security Researcher

🕒 July 23

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $202k - $254k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security 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

• Drive product capability by bringing offensive practitioner's perspective to Censys's scanning, fingerprinting, and attack surface data. • Conduct original research to investigate emerging attack techniques. • Publish seminal work through research reports and technical blog posts. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering and Product to translate findings into new features. • Lead agentic AI threat research by building, deploying, and evaluating AI frameworks. • Track adversary infrastructure using red team tradecraft knowledge. • Mentor and inform other researchers and engineers on offensive techniques.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on penetration testing, red teaming, or adversary emulation experience against enterprise, cloud, or Internet-facing environments. • Demonstrated ability to independently identify and characterize vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or exploitation techniques. • Strong understanding of network protocols, service fingerprinting, and Internet-scale scanning concepts. • Hands-on experience with agentic systems for offensive security. • Proficiency in scripting or coding (Python, Go, or similar) to build tooling, automate testing, or analyze large datasets. • Familiarity with red team frameworks and tradecraft. • Comfort working with large-scale Internet scan data or a strong interest in learning to do so.

🏖️ Benefits

• equity • health, dental & vision coverage • retirement with company contribution • parental leave • mental health & wellness benefits • flexible PTO • professional development stipend • sales incentive pay for sales roles • annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles