[Hiring] Senior Distributed Systems Engineer @Censys

Role Description

We’re looking to hire a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer on our Internet Map Connections team to build highly-available and scalable, data-driven services that provide value directly to customers and across our organization.

• Design and build services that power existing and future products at Censys by building our next-generation attribution engine, used to determine entity ownership and connections between assets in the Censys Internet Map.
• Work closely with our Coverage and Context Internet Map teams to help ensure Censys maintains the most comprehensive, complete, and context rich datasets.
• Build and extend large scale, real-time streaming services and applications which leverage our massive datasets to power internal product APIs and external applications.
• Leverage a multitude of software architectures and techniques, including messaging queues, eventual consistency semantics, distributed locking, clustering, CQRS, and others.
• Interface with a polyglot codebase, including working with existing Python and Go applications.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with Golang.
• Experience with REST/gRPC and service-oriented architectures.
• Distributed systems experience: 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Familiarity writing analytical SQL and/or optimizing reading and writing to large datasets in OLAP databases such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, etc.
• 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.

Benefits

• For candidates located in high cost of living locations, the salary range for this position is $180,000 - $245,000 + bonus eligibility and equity.
• For candidates located in any other location, the salary range for this position is $153,000 - $208,000 + 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!