Censys · 2 weeks ago
Senior Backend Engineer (Exposure Management)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$165K/yr - $188K/yr
5+ years expCensys is a company dedicated to providing comprehensive Internet intelligence and actionable threat insights. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Exposure Management team, responsible for designing and building large-scale backend services that deliver real-time visibility to customers.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and own backend APIs and gRPC services that integrate data from multiple internal teams and systems in a clean, well-architected manner
Build and evolve real-time and near–real-time backend services and data pipelines that power Exposure Management and Attack Surface Management products
Leverage AI and LLMs to enhance automation, accelerate development workflows, and improve customer-facing intelligence
Partner closely with Product and other Engineering teams to prioritize features, influence the Exposure Management roadmap, and deliver customer value on tight timelines
Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, and setting a high bar for code quality, performance, and operational reliability
Design and maintain automated CI/CD workflows, including testing, monitoring, alerting, and deployment, to ensure services are production-ready and observable
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in software engineering
3+ years of experience with Golang
Experience designing and consuming REST and gRPC APIs in service-oriented or microservice architectures
Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including experience building horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant systems
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
Preferred
Strong interest in harnessing AI and LLM tools as a force multiplier - using it to code smarter, iterate faster boosting productivity and enhancing product capabilities
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
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
Benefits
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Company
Censys
Censys provides an internet intelligence platform for threat hunting and exposure management.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$128.1MKey Investors
Intel Capital
2023-10-24Series C· $50M
2023-10-24Debt Financing· $25M
2022-01-27Series B· $35M
Leadership Team
Eirik Herskedal
Vice President Of Engineering
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