Key skills
GoGolangAIAnalyticsAWSGCPKubernetesDockerSAMLSSOCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Censys is dedicated to providing comprehensive and accurate internet intelligence. They are seeking a backend Software Engineer II to join their Core Services team, responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure for authentication, authorization, analytics, and user management across their platform.
Responsibilities:
- Implement and extend services that deliver new core platform functionality
- Support authentication, authorization, and analytics capabilities alongside the team
- Build, test, deploy, and monitor a distributed set of services
- Partner with product, design, and other engineering teams to ship features end-to-end
- Help evolve the Censys public API as platform capabilities grow
- Improve developer experience for internal teams and external API consumers
- Own small-to-medium features from technical design through launch, with increasing independence; participate in design discussions with guidance from senior engineers
- Share on-call responsibilities for your areas and handle straightforward incidents with team support as needed
Requirements:
- Experience writing backend services in Go (Golang)
- Foundational understanding of distributed systems and common operational challenges
- General knowledge of database design and typical access patterns
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS or GCP)
- Strong collaboration, communication, and analytical troubleshooting skills
- A track record of delivering well-defined work at high quality, knowing when to ask for clarification or help, and learning quickly from mistakes
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
- Experience building services on GCP
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
- Familiarity with SSO, SAML, and/or OIDC