Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Censys, Inc.; Los Altos (CA); Remote; USD 149,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to enhance their Attack Surface Management Platform. This role involves building scalable, real-time streaming applications and leveraging extensive datasets to deliver exceptional customer solutions. Ideal candidates will have a deep understanding of internet architecture and experience with distributed systems. Join a forward-thinking team where your contributions will directly impact the company's growth and customer satisfaction. With a focus on collaboration and continuous improvement, this is a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic environment that values innovation and excellence.

Benefits

401k Match

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Equity Options

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building distributed and streaming applications.
• 5+ years of experience with common data-oriented programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend large scale, real-time streaming services and applications.
• Design automated solutions for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying applications.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Streaming Applications

Golang

Python

Scala

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

REST/gRPC

Fault-tolerance

Communication Skills

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP PubSub

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Company Background

Censys’ mission is to be the one place to understand everything on the internet. Frustrated by the lack of trustworthy Internet intelligence, we set out to create the industry’s most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the Internet. Today, Censys delivers real-time Internet intelligence and actionable threat insights to global governments, over 50% of the Fortune 500, and leading threat intelligence providers worldwide.

Location

This position can be remote within the United States, but employees have the option to work from any of our office locations: Ann Arbor, MI; Los Altos, CA; Seattle, WA; or Tysons, VA.

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join our team working in the backend of our Attack Surface Management Platform. Our ASM Platform is a growth product for Censys and it relies on us having a world-class architecture to provide customers the most real-time solution in the industry. Our ability to correctly map internet entities (hostnames, IP addresses, etc.) to the correct organization is the foundation of our ASM platform and will require someone who has both deep internet knowledge and experience to build highly scalable distributed system services.

We expect all of our employees to consider customer happiness as our primary goal and a willingness to come to work every day with a great attitude, both eager to learn and educate, which helps to make us a better organization every day.

What You’ll Do

• Work to build a complete Attack Surface for our customers based on the data in the Censys Internet Map, combined with a number of other 3rd party data sources.
• Build and extend large scale, real-time streaming services and applications which leverage our massive datasets to power internal product APIs and external applications.
• You will be using and exploring multiple technologies, often being the first to try a new platform or architectural design.
• Design automated solutions for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying applications in a Continuous Integration (CI) and continuous Delivery (CD) environment.
• Maintain a strong customer focus, prioritizing customer feature requests and helping define the ASM roadmap.

What You’ll Bring

• A positive attitude biased towards action and iterative problem solving, learning as we grow every step of the way.
• A deep understanding of how the Internet works. For example, WHOIS, Certificate Subject Alternative Names (SANs), and DNS record types should not be foreign to you.
• 3+ years of experience building distributed and streaming applications.
• 5+ years of experience with common data-oriented programming languages, such as Golang, Python, or Scala.
• 3+ years of experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools and methodologies.
• Experience with REST/gRPC and service-oriented architectures.
• Ability to build horizontally scalable systems, with a high degree of availability and fault-tolerance, leveraging techniques such as distributed locking, load-shedding, etc.
• The ability to thoughtfully participate in technical discussions and drive towards data-driven decisions amidst ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Strong communication and documentation skills. Explaining complex technical concepts to other engineers, designers, salespeople, and content marketers is no problem for you.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with a service-oriented architecture using gRPC or REST to coordinate and communicate between services and systems.
• You have experience with microservice-based designs with GCP PubSub, etc, and know their tradeoffs.
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining containerized services in a Kubernetes-based environment.
• You understand the value of building maintainable software. Some of your first tasks when building a new service are ensuring test coverage enforced by CI, adding linters, and adding code complexity checks. You enjoy a good abstraction, and promote established design patterns, but also know when to think outside the box.

Our target salary range for this role is between $149,150 - $190,000 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.

In addition to our great compensation package, our benefits are effective on day one and include but are not limited to 401k match, health, vision, dental, and more! Please see ourcareers page for more details.

Our innovation is fueled by the team’s global perspectives. We are open to remote employees for this role; however, we offer four hub locations that employees are welcome to use: Seattle, WA; Los Altos, CA; Tysons, VA; or Ann Arbor, MI.

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