Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Distributed Systems)

Censys is on a mission to provide comprehensive Internet intelligence and actionable threat insights. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Distributed Systems) to build scalable services and APIs for processing vast amounts of data, contributing to their Internet Map initiative.

Responsibilities:

• Build large scale, real-time streaming services and applications which leverage our massive datasets to power internal APIs and external applications
• Own the design and development phases of backend services and APIs that power the data platform that is our Internet Map
• Own planning activities to ensure we’re building the right things, by collaborating with engineering and product teams
• Leverage your experience of architecture and design to build various parts of the system, including components like: messaging queues, databases, ingestion pipelines, caching layers, and services that run in the cloud or on-prem

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience writing distributed systems (i.e. data ingestion pipelines, databases, services)
• Experience with object-oriented programming - we use Go
• Experience with at least one cloud provider, like: AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with message queue technologies, like: AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other
• Proficient with databases, like: BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra, or other
• Proficient at building scalable, distributed systems
• Know when and where to utilize AI
• Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
• Possess strong communication skills and can explain technical concepts to other engineers and product managers
• Familiarity with gRPC or REST
• Familiarity with data serialization technologies, like: Protobuf, MessagePack, etc
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining containerized services in a Kubernetes
• Knowledge of how DNS works and is used in practice
• An understanding of how the Internet works; how machines and services communicate using defined protocols / standards