# Security Engineer at Censys

- Company: Censys
- What the company does: Censys empowers security teams with the most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the internet to defend attack surfaces and hunt for threats. Backed by Greylock and GV.
- Company website: https://censys.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $121K to $155K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/censys/jobs/8541287002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/censys-security-engineer/

## About the role

Scope note: Application and product security are owned by our SRE team. You'll partner closely with them on cloud and infrastructure guardrails and contribute security expertise to their work — but you are not expected to own the SDLC or product security roadmap.

## What they're looking for

- Identity & Access Management Own identity as a program, not a ticket queue. Drive down standing access and manual provisioning over time for joiner-mover-leaver changes and non-human identity management
- AI and Agentic Security Two halves, both yours:

Tags: IT/Security