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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Censys
Mc Lean, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025

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.

Role Summary :

We're seeking a Software Engineer, Distributed Systems to join our team. Our Internet Intelligence Platform™ (IIP™) is the growth product for Censys and it relies on us processing and analyzing billions of Internet telemetry data points. The candidate will possess the drive to learn about cyber security and build out data pipelines.

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 :

  • Use your drive and curiosity to learn about data pipelining in multiple cybersecurity contexts
  • Build and maintain data pipelining solutions including both streaming and batch workloads.
  • Use and explore multiple technologies, often being the first to try a new platform or architectural design.
  • Develop a high regard for writing automated tests and setting up monitoring for your work.
  • Maintain a strong customer focus, prioritizing customer feature requests and helping define our roadmap.

What You'll Bring :

  • A positive attitude biased towards action and iterative problem solving, learning as we grow every step of the way.
  • 3 years of experience with common data-oriented programming languages, such as Golang, Python, and Scala.
  • 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.
  • Bonus Points :

  • You have experience with multiple streaming and batch processing solutions such as Spark, Flink, GCP Dataproc, microservice-based designs with GCP PubSub, etc.
  • 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.
  • Our target salary range for this role is between $125,000.00 - $150,000.00 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 Tysons, VA. Our innovation is fueled by the team's global perspectives. For this role, we are looking for candidates based in one of our four hub locations : Seattle, WA, Los Altos, CA, Tysons, VA, or Ann Arbor, MI and will be required to go into one of the offices on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third day of choice.

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