Backend Engineer II — Exposure Management APIs (Remote)

Censys; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Health insurance

Vision/Dental coverage

Job summary

Censys is seeking a Software Engineer II (Backend) to join the Exposure Management team. You will develop and own API features end to end, focusing on Go-based services and collaborating with frontend engineers to deliver fast, scalable APIs.

Join a team that values customer focus, collaboration, and continuous learning as you build security-focused internet visibility tools. Remote work is supported in the United States or Canada.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services.
• Production experience with Go, or strong experience in another backend language (Python, Java) and the drive to become proficient in Go quickly.
• Experience designing and consuming REST or gRPC APIs, ideally ones consumed by a frontend application.
• Solid SQL skills and working knowledge of relational data modeling, indexing, and query performance.
• A track record of building maintainable software: tests enforced in CI, meaningful monitoring and alerting, and thoughtful code reviews.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, product managers, and other teams.
• Curiosity and a willingness to pick up new domains, tools, and parts of the stack.

Responsibilities

• Own small-to-medium product API features end to end, from technical design through launch, monitoring, and iteration
• Build and extend the public REST and gRPC APIs behind Exposure Management and Supplier Risk Intelligence
• Partner with frontend engineers and product stakeholders on API contracts, filtering, pagination, and response shapes so customer-facing experiences stay fast and simple to build
• Work with other Censys teams to integrate their data and services through gRPC and GCP PubSub, and agree on interfaces that hold up as both sides evolve
• Profile and optimize API performance, from Postgres query plans and indexing to caching and payload size
• Write tests, add observability, and take release and on-call responsibility for the services you ship
• Bring customer feedback into design discussions and help onboard interns and newer engineers in your area

Skills

Go

REST API design

gRPC

SQL

Backend services

CI/CD

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

GCP PubSub

Job description

Censys is seeking a Software Engineer II (Backend) to join the Exposure Management team. You will develop and own API features end to end, focusing on Go-based services and collaborating with frontend engineers to deliver fast, scalable APIs.

Join a team that values customer focus, collaboration, and continuous learning as you build security-focused internet visibility tools. Remote work is supported in the United States or Canada.