Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Censys as a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer and contribute to the development of our Attack Surface Management Platform. You will build and extend large-scale, real-time streaming services, leverage massive datasets to power internal and external applications, and design automated solutions for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying applications. This role requires a deep understanding of the internet and experience with distributed and streaming applications. You will work with various technologies, prioritize customer feature requests, and help define the ASM roadmap. The position is remote-friendly within the United States, with office locations available in several cities. The salary range is $149,150 - $190,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.

Requirements

• 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
• 3+ years of experience building distributed and streaming applications
• 5+ years of experience with common data-oriented programming languages, such as Golang, Python, or Scala
• 3+ years of experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools and methodologies
• 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

Responsibilities

• Work to build a complete Attack Surface for our customers based on the data in the Censys Internet Map, combined with a number of other 3rd party data sources
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• 401k match
• Health
• Vision
• Dental