Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, Data Platform (Remote)

Matcha; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Dental & vision

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Wellness benefits

Flexible PTO

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Censys is hiring a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to build scalable, data-driven services across our Internet Map Connections team. You’ll work on real-time data processing, asset ownership attribution, and platform evolution with a focus on reliability and developer experience.

As part of a collaborative team, you will partner with ML engineers and security researchers, contributing to security outcomes while shipping robust, maintainable systems. Remote-friendly within the United States.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems.
• Experience with object-oriented programming - Go is used.
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with message queue technologies (Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Kafka).
• Experience with databases such as BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra.

Responsibilities

• Build large scale, real-time services and applications that leverage massive datasets.
• Develop tooling, libraries, and services supporting security, research, and data platform initiatives.
• Productionize prototypes into reliable internal tools and services.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to build the right solutions.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines, messaging systems, databases, caching layers, and cloud/on-prem services.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Messaging systems

Databases (BigTable, Cloud Spanner, H-

Tools

Kubernetes

gRPC/REST

Protobuf/MessagePack

Job description

Censys is hiring a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to build scalable, data-driven services across our Internet Map Connections team. You’ll work on real-time data processing, asset ownership attribution, and platform evolution with a focus on reliability and developer experience.

As part of a collaborative team, you will partner with ML engineers and security researchers, contributing to security outcomes while shipping robust, maintainable systems. Remote-friendly within the United States.