Censys

Staff Backend Engineer, Exposure Management

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5 months ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+

Base Salary

$172k - $216k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as technical lead for the Exposure Management team and drive technical direction across services.
  • Own the migration of legacy Attack Surface Management functionality onto the Exposure Management platform.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of backend services and ensure interoperability between legacy and new systems.
  • Build and extend large-scale, real-time streaming services using massive datasets.
  • Drive technical alignment across shared systems and improve scalability and engineering effectiveness.
  • Mentor team members and promote technical excellence, architectural leadership, and high engineering standards.
  • Leverage AI and LLM technologies to improve engineering efficiency and enhance platform capabilities.
  • Balance ongoing customer commitments with long-term migration and platform development.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of experience with Golang.
  • Deep understanding of Internet technologies and concepts including WHOIS, Certificate Subject Alternative Names, and DNS record types.
  • Strong distributed systems experience, including horizontally scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems.
  • Experience with service-oriented architectures and operational technologies including gRPC/REST, GCP, and Kubernetes.
  • Ability to navigate unfamiliar legacy systems, reverse-engineer behavior, and resolve complex issues with minimal disruption.
  • Strong communication, technical design, architecture documentation, and end-to-end solution delivery skills.
  • Experience leading product migrations or platform consolidations is a differentiator.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures using GCP Pub/Sub or similar systems is a differentiator.
  • Interest in integrating AI and LLM technologies into engineering workflows and product experiences is a differentiator.
  • Experience with test coverage enforcement, linters, code complexity checks, abstractions, and established design patterns is a differentiator.

Benefits

  • Remote within the United States or Canada, with continental US availability stated elsewhere in the posting.
  • Equity, health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement plan with company contribution, parental leave, mental health and wellness benefits, flexible PTO, and professional development stipend.
  • Annual bonus plan eligibility for non-sales roles.
  • In-person onboarding at the Ann Arbor headquarters may be provided.
  • Video interviews require candidates to keep their cameras on.
Censys

About Censys

51-200 employees

Censys builds Internet intelligence and attack surface management tools for security teams, delivered via SaaS and data APIs. It maps public-facing assets and services through continuous internet-wide scanning and maintains petabytes of historical data to power threat investigation and exposure monitoring. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Censys is privately held and used by governments and Fortune 500 enterprises.

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