Software Engineer II – Backend

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🔥 12 hours ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $116.5k - $164k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack 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

• Own small-to-medium product API features end to end, from technical design through launch, monitoring, and iteration • Build and extend public REST and gRPC APIs for Exposure Management and Supplier Risk Intelligence • Develop risk event endpoints powering SIEM integrations with Splunk, Google SecOps, and Microsoft Sentinel • Partner with frontend engineers and product stakeholders on API contracts, filtering, pagination, and response shapes • Integrate data and services from other Censys teams through gRPC and GCP PubSub • Profile and optimize API performance, including Postgres query plans, indexing, caching, and payload size • Write tests, add observability, and take release and on-call responsibility for shipped services • Incorporate customer feedback into design discussions • Help onboard interns and newer engineers

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services • Production experience with Go, or strong experience in Python or Java and the drive to become proficient in Go quickly • Experience designing and consuming REST or gRPC APIs • Solid SQL skills and working knowledge of relational data modeling, indexing, and query performance • Track record of building maintainable software, including tests enforced in CI, meaningful monitoring and alerting, and thoughtful code reviews • Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, product managers, and other teams • Curiosity and willingness to learn new domains, tools, and parts of the stack • Experience with security products, attack surface management, third-party risk, or vulnerability management • Experience building APIs for external developers or partners, including OpenAPI specs, versioning, and webhooks • Experience with event-driven systems such as GCP PubSub or Kafka, and idempotency and retries • Experience deploying containerized services on Kubernetes in GCP or AWS • Fluency with AI coding tools • Working understanding of Internet technologies, including DNS record types, WHOIS, and Certificate Subject Alternative Names (SANs)

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity • 401k match • Health insurance • Vision insurance • Dental insurance • Benefits effective on day one • Identity verification through CLEAR for candidates receiving an offer

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