Remote Engineering Manager - Scalable Data & Systems

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

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