Senior Software Engineer, Censys

• A positive attitude biased towards action and iterative problem solving, learning as we grow every step of the way
• 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
• 3+ years of experience building distributed and streaming applications
• 5+ years of experience with common data-oriented programming languages, such as Golang, Python, or Scala
• 3+ years of experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools and methodologies
• Experience with REST/gRPC and service-oriented architectures
• Ability to build horizontally scalable systems, with a high degree of availability and fault-tolerance, leveraging techniques such as distributed locking, load-shedding, etc
• 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

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join our team working in the backend of our Attack Surface Management Platform
• Our ASM Platform is a growth product for Censys and it relies on us having a world-class architecture to provide customers the most real-time solution in the industry
• Our ability to correctly map internet entities (hostnames, IP addresses, etc.) to the correct organization is the foundation of our ASM platform and will require someone who has both deep internet knowledge and experience to build highly scalable distributed system services
• 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
• Work to build a complete Attack Surface for our customers based on the data in the Censys Internet Map, combined with a number of other 3rd party data sources
• Build and extend large scale, real-time streaming services and applications which leverage our massive datasets to power internal product APIs and external applications
• You will be using and exploring multiple technologies, often being the first to try a new platform or architectural design
• Design automated solutions for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying applications in a Continuous Integration (CI) and continuous Delivery (CD) environment
• Maintain a strong customer focus, prioritizing customer feature requests and helping define the ASM roadmap