Senior Software Engineer, Censys

• You'd be great for this position if you're someone who considers not just initial development, but ongoing maintenance and monitoring. You consider delivery and developer experience, and everything you do can be built upon in the future by others
• 5+ years of software engineering experience writing distributed applications at scale
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming techniques and languages such as Go, Rust, or Python. Go is highly preferred
• Experience with message queue technologies such as Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, AWS Kinesis
• Experience with distributed databases, such as BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra or AWS databases, with an understanding of trade-offs on consistency, durability, and replication of using such technologies
• Ability to build horizontally scalable systems, with a high degree of availability and fault-tolerance leveraging techniques such as distributed locking, load-shedding, etc
• Design automated solutions for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying data streaming pipelines in a continuous integration environment
• Interested in solving problems, not completing tasks
• Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
• Have strong communication skills and can explain complex technical concepts to other engineers, designers, and product managers
• Collaborate and communicate well with other engineers working on related systems
• Enjoy technical architecture discussions and want to drive technical decisions within your team and across the entire engineering organization
• Continually improve skills, technical approaches, and familiarity with new technologies to help contribute to the success of the company

Desirable

• We’re looking to hire a Distributed Systems Engineer to build highly-available and scalable, data-driven services that provide value directly to customers and across our organization
• Censys operates distributed infrastructure for Internet-wide scanning, bulk DNS resolution, and X.509 certificate ingestion: your job will be to go below the surface of our data, and help us build the highest quality datasets and APIs
• Design and build services that power existing and future products at Censys by continuing to improve and expand our Internet Map
• Build and extend large scale, real-time streaming services and applications which leverage our massive datasets to power internal product APIs and external applications
• Leverage a multitude of software architectures and techniques, including messaging queues, eventual consistency semantics, distributed locking, clustering, CQRS, and others
• Interface with a polyglot codebase, including working with existing Scala and Go applications