Remote Staff SRE: Networking for Global Internet Platform

Censys; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Health, vision, dental

Job summary

Censys is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own networking across our hybrid infrastructure. The role focuses on designing edge and data-center networking as software, raising reliability, and guiding cross‑team initiatives that span cloud, on‑prem, and edge environments.

You'll drive GitOps workflows, build automation for load balancing, DNS, and routing, and mentor the SRE team to scale resilience while staying hands-on with complex incidents spanning Kubernetes, application, and

Qualifications

• Deep networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, BGP, anycast, DNS, TLS, and load balancing at scale.
• 10+ years in network engineering, SRE, or infra with production ownership.
• Experience building software to run networks: automation, health checks, certificate lifecycle, traffic management.
• Experience operating hybrid environments (data centers + public cloud, GCP preferred).
• Fluency with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps (Terraform, Crossplane, ArgoCD).
• Ability to drive architectural decisions with clear proposals and data.
• Strong communication: explain routing incidents and tradeoffs to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for networking across our hybrid environment (data center fabrics, GCP VPC design, Kubernetes networking, edge).
• Design and automate core networking primitives (load balancing, ingress, routing, DNS, BGP, TLS termination) via GitOps pipelines.
• Lead cross-datacenter resiliency program for on-prem scanning platform with failover architecture.
• Own edge protection including DDoS mitigation, WAF strategy, traffic engineering for healthy infrastructure.
• Set networking standards and secure cross-team buy-in for multi‑quarter initiatives.
• Mentor SRE team to grow networking depth and avoid single points of failure.
• Stay hands-on as a senior escalation point for incidents spanning app, Kubernetes, and network layers.

Skills

Networking engineering

SRE / Infra

Go / Python automation

Kubernetes networking

GitOps / IaC

Communication skills

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes (CNI)

Terraform

ArgoCD

Crossplane

Job description

Censys is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own networking across our hybrid infrastructure. The role focuses on designing edge and data-center networking as software, raising reliability, and guiding cross‑team initiatives that span cloud, on‑prem, and edge environments.

You'll drive GitOps workflows, build automation for load balancing, DNS, and routing, and mentor the SRE team to scale resilience while staying hands-on with complex incidents spanning Kubernetes, application, and