Censys

Senior Backend Engineer, SOC & Threat Hunting

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5 months ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$125k - $165k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and refine robust backend services for the Adversary Investigation module
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, and Frontend teams to create customer-focused solutions
  • Own the development lifecycle from automated builds and testing through deployment and ongoing monitoring
  • Integrate internal systems and external APIs to support data-intensive user experiences
  • Improve test coverage, code maintainability, linting, and code complexity checks

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional experience building distributed web applications and APIs
  • At least 2 years of experience building microservices in Go
  • Experience with at least one cloud provider, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • Familiarity with Docker and interest in improving CI/CD deployment processes
  • Familiarity with gRPC or REST
  • Experience with microservice-based designs using GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar technologies
  • Experience with Redis, Bigtable, BigQuery, Postgres, or other databases
  • Experience building, deploying, and maintaining containerized services in Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with TypeScript and JavaScript; React proficiency is a plus
  • Ability to participate thoughtfully in technical discussions and make data-driven decisions amid ambiguity and competing priorities
  • Strong communication and documentation skills

Benefits

  • Fully remote position within the United States or Canada
  • Equity, health, dental and vision coverage, retirement with company contribution, parental leave, mental health and wellness benefits, flexible PTO, and a professional development stipend
  • Remote employees may be invited to the Ann Arbor headquarters for in-person onboarding
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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