Engineering Manager

censys; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Disability accommodations

Job summary

censys is seeking an engineering leader to manage a multidisciplinary team responsible for systems that discover, scan, and collect large-scale Internet data powering an Internet intelligence platform and customer-facing products. This is a fully remote role based in the continental United States, with occasional in-person onboarding at a Midwestern headquarters.

The role blends people leadership with technical roadmap ownership, architecture guidance, and operational accountability, requiring

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams that balance people leadership, technical strategy, delivery, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop scanner engineers and distributed systems engineers, setting clear expectations for ownership, quality, collaboration, delivery, and operational responsibility.
• Define and drive the team's roadmap in partnership with product, research, infrastructure, and other engineering stakeholders.
• Connect priorities to measurable improvements in data coverage, freshness, fidelity, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead major initiatives from discovery through production delivery, communicating timelines, tradeoffs, and risks across teams.
• Guide architecture across Internet scanning, orchestration, protocol implementations, distributed services, ingestion pipelines, APIs, and operational tooling.
• Establish and maintain standards for design, testing, safe rollout, observability, and incident response, while owning staffing, hiring decisions, and team health.

Job description

Role overview

An engineering leader is needed to manage a multidisciplinary team responsible for the systems that discover, scan, and collect large-scale Internet data powering an Internet intelligence platform and customer-facing products. The role blends people leadership with technical roadmap ownership, architecture guidance, and operational accountability. This is a fully remote position based in the continental United States, with occasional in-person onboarding at a Midwestern headquarters.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop scanner engineers and distributed systems engineers, setting clear expectations for ownership, quality, collaboration, delivery, and operational responsibility.
• Define and drive the team's roadmap in partnership with product, research, infrastructure, and other engineering stakeholders.
• Connect priorities to measurable improvements in data coverage, freshness, fidelity, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead major initiatives from discovery through production delivery, communicating timelines, tradeoffs, and risks across teams.
• Guide architecture across Internet scanning, orchestration, protocol implementations, distributed services, ingestion pipelines, APIs, and operational tooling.
• Establish and maintain standards for design, testing, safe rollout, observability, and incident response, while owning staffing, hiring decisions, and team health.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams that balance people leadership, technical strategy, delivery, and operations.
• Ability to set clear direction without making every decision yourself, including coaching through frequent feedback and meaningful delegation.
• Track record of guiding decisions using measurable outcomes such as coverage, freshness, accuracy, reliability, recovery time, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Comfort balancing speed, quality, cost, technical debt, operational risk, and customer impact across competing priorities.
• Technically credible background sufficient to engage in architecture, design reviews, incidents, and engineering tradeoffs while enabling engineers.
• Experience translating research and exploratory work into maintainable production capabilities.

Nice to have

• Background in high-performance network scanning, protocol implementation, scan orchestration, real-time data pipelines, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with IP scanning, DNS lookups, web crawling, or certificate ingestion pipelines.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote position open to candidates across the continental United States.
• Compensation and benefits are described as competitive, with details available on the company's careers page; benefits may be modified in the future.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates and employees with disabilities.

Equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive hiring practices.