Software Engineer – Backend, Distributed Systems

🕒 April 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $157k / 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

• Help build large scale, real-time services and applications which leverage our massive datasets to power internal APIs and external applications. • Build tooling, libraries, frameworks, and services that support security, research and data platform initiatives. • Productionize prototypes into reliable internal tools, services, or platform capabilities. • Participate in planning and technical discussions with engineering and product teams to help build the right solutions. • Develop and maintain systems such as data pipelines, messaging systems, databases, caching layers, and services that run in the cloud or on-prem. • Work with Machine Learning Engineers and Security Researchers to realize solutions that affect security outcomes.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building 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 or familiarity with message queue technologies, like: AWS Kinesis , Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other. • Experience working with databases, like: BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra, or other. • Understanding of core distributed systems concepts such as scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability. • Familiarity with using AI. • Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability. • Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with other engineers and product managers.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401k match • health • vision • dental • and more!