Remote Senior Real-Time Distributed Systems Engineer

Censys; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental & vision

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Mental health & wellness benefits

Flexible PTO

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Censys seeks a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to build highly-available, scalable data-driven services for real-time internet intelligence. You will work on distributed infrastructure for internet-wide scanning, DNS, and X.509 ingestion, emphasizing maintainability and future extensibility.

You will collaborate with ML engineers and security researchers, contribute to data pipelines and services, and help plan tech solutions with product teams. Remote within the United States is supported.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems.
• Experience with object-oriented programming - we use Go.
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with message queues (Kinesis Pub/Sub Kafka).
• Experience with databases (BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra).
• Understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.
• Familiarity with using AI.
• Ability to write understandable, testable code with maintainability.
• Strong communication with engineers and product managers.
• Open to using AI to amplify skills responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Help build large-scale, real-time services using massive datasets for internal APIs and external apps.
• Build tooling, libraries, frameworks, and services for security, research, and data platforms.
• Productionize prototypes into reliable internal tools and platform capabilities.
• Participate in planning and technical discussions with engineering and product teams.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines, messaging systems, databases, caching layers, and cloud/on-prem services.
• Collaborate with ML engineers and security researchers to improve security outcomes.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Cloud providers

Message queues

Databases

Scalability

AI familiarity

Readable code

Communication

Responsible AI

Tools

gRPC

REST

Protobuf

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Censys seeks a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to build highly-available, scalable data-driven services for real-time internet intelligence. You will work on distributed infrastructure for internet-wide scanning, DNS, and X.509 ingestion, emphasizing maintainability and future extensibility.

You will collaborate with ML engineers and security researchers, contribute to data pipelines and services, and help plan tech solutions with product teams. Remote within the United States is supported.