Corporate Security Egnineer

At Censys, our mission is to bring internet visibility and intelligence to the world's security teams. Our platform not only identifies potential threats, but provides actionable insights and enables proactive defense strategies. Founded by researchers and practitioners, we are deeply committed to the quality, trustworthiness, and transparency of our data and results. As our own strongest critics, we continuously innovate to better understand the Internet and empower our customers with the visibility they need to succeed.

Location: This is a hybrid role located in Ann Arbor, Tysons Corner, Kirkland, or Los Altos.

Role Summary:

In this role, you will report to the Director of IT & Corporate Security. You'll collaborate with a team of experts dedicated to understanding customers' business needs and securing the cloud services used to deliver customer value. By fostering a culture of learning and collaboration, we aim to build secure infrastructures tailored to our customers' unique requirements.

What You'll Do:

• Vulnerability Management: Assist in the identification and remediation of security vulnerabilities within the organization's systems and applications. Track and report on vulnerability remediation progress.
• Security Policies and Procedures: Help maintain and update security policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Security Awareness: Participate in security awareness training programs and educate employees on security best practices.
• Threat Intelligence: Stay current with the latest cybersecurity threats and trends. Contribute to the organization's threat intelligence efforts.
• Documentation: Maintain detailed records of security incidents, investigations, and remediation efforts. Generate reports for management and regulatory purposes.
• Specialized Security Tooling: Contribute in and/or drive the development of customized security scanning, analysis and mitigation tools for Censys.
• Ongoing reviewing of status reports/updates from MSSP/MDR.
• Utilize various security tools and technologies to identify and mitigate security risks
• Lead cutting-edge security projects within Censys
• Deploy, maintain and utilize security and compliance tooling to proactively improve security posture
• Review and update policy documents and identify policy non-compliance concerns
• Organize tooling and workloads such that appropriate security and compliance evidence and artifacts are created and stored to support company compliance goals
• Work on strategic solutions to problems around organizational and cloud security
• Contribute to open-source projects within Censys and the security community
• Participate in the security community through talks and other engagements
• Help research various security topics - providing insight and expertise on complex projects
• Other duties as assigned

What You'll Bring:

• Cloud Security Expertise: Hands-on experience securing cloud-native architectures in AWS, GCP, or Azure (e.g., IAM, workload identity, network segmentation).
• Incident Response Leadership: Experience managing high-severity incidents or participating in post-incident reviews (blameless RCAs, runbooks, tabletop exercises).
• Mentorship Experience: History of mentoring junior engineers or leading security-focused training initiatives within an organization.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to influence and drive security culture across engineering, product, and business teams.

Bonus Points:

• Advanced Certifications: e.g., OSCP, OSCE, CISSP, GSE, or SANS GIAC series (e.g., GREM, GCFA).

• Active contributor to security-related projects or published tools, advisories, or research.

• Familiarity with GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS and how they intersect with security practices.
• Experience defining and tracking key security metrics or reporting to executive stakeholders.
• Security Tooling Development: Ability to design and build internal security tools, scripts, or automation workflows.
• Red Team / Offensive Security Background: Demonstrated experience in adversarial simulations, purple teaming, or exploit development.

Our target salary range for this role is between $125,000 USD and $170,000 USD 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 with location hubs in Seattle, the Bay Area, and Washington D.C. Our innovation is fueled by the team's global perspectives. For this role, we are looking for candidates based in one of our HUB Locations: Ann Arbor, MI | Kirkland, WA | Tysons Corner, VA | Los Altos, CA

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