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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Remote (US/Canada)

Company Background

Censys’ mission is to be the one place to understand everything on the internet. Frustrated by the lack of trustworthy Internet intelligence, we set out to create the industry’s most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the Internet. Today, Censys delivers real-time Internet intelligence and actionable threat insights to global governments, over 50% of the Fortune 500, and leading threat intelligence providers worldwide.

Location: 

This position can be remote within the United States or Canada. 

 

Role Summary: 

Censys is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to work in the area of Risks in our Attack Surface Management platform. Our ASM Platform is a growth product for Censys and it relies on us having a world-class architecture to provide customers the most real-time solution in the industry. The area of Risks is critical to our customers as this is what helps them prioritize where to spend their limited cycles to reduce their exposure to potential attacks. We expect all of our employees to consider customer happiness as our primary goal and a willingness to come to work every day with a great attitude, both eager to learn and educate, which helps to make us a better organization every day.

 

What you’ll do:

  • Take responsibility for the Risks workflows in our Attack Surface Management product, specifically:
    • Ensuring customers can effectively prioritize and manage risks in their attack surface. 
    • Ensuring Risks can be managed via both the UI and API, including supporting downstream integrations into third party products.
    • Ensure that the Risks subsystem is performant for our largest customers. 
  • Build and extend large scale, real-time streaming services and applications which leverage our massive datasets to power internal product APIs and external applications.
  • You will be using and exploring multiple technologies, often being the first to try a new platform or architectural design.
  • Design automated solutions for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying applications in a Continuous Integration (CI) and continuous Delivery (CD) environment.
  • Maintain a strong customer focus, prioritizing customer feature requests and helping define the ASM roadmap.

 

What you’ll bring:

  • A positive attitude biased towards action and iterative problem solving, learning as we grow every step of the way.
  • A deep understanding of how the Internet works. For example, WHOIS, Certificate Subject Alternative Names (SANs), and DNS record types should not be foreign to you.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience with Golang.
  • Experience with REST/gRPC and service-oriented architectures.
  • Ability to build horizontally scalable systems, with a high degree of availability and fault-tolerance leveraging techniques such as distributed locking, load-shedding, etc.
  • The ability to thoughtfully participate in technical discussions and drive towards data-driven decisions amidst ambiguity and competing priorities.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills. Explaining complex technical concepts to other engineers, designers, salespeople, and content marketers is no problem for you.

 

Skills that set you apart:

  • Familiarity with a service-oriented architecture using gRPC or REST to coordinate and communicate between services and systems.
  • You have experience with microservice-based designs with GCP PubSub, etc, and know their tradeoffs.
  • Experience building, deploying, and maintaining containerized services in a Kubernetes based environment.
  • You understand the value of building maintainable software. Some of your first tasks when building a new service are ensuring test coverage enforced by CI, adding linters, and adding code complexity checks. You enjoy a good abstraction, and promote established design patterns, but also know when to think outside the box.

 

For candidates located in high cost of living locations, the salary range for this position is $207,000 - $234,900 + bonus eligibility and equity.

For candidates located in any other location, the salary range for this position is $175,950 - $199,665 + bonus eligibility and equity.

In addition to our great compensation package, our benefits are effective on day one and include but are not limited to 401k match, health, vision, dental, and more! Please see our careers page for more details.

Our roots are in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For this role, we are open to remote employees across the continental US or Canada. 

 

Note to external recruiters/agencies: We are not currently engaging with third-party agencies for this role and will not accept unsolicited outreach. We kindly ask that you do not submit resumes or candidate profiles to our team.

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