# Senior Distributed Systems 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: Senior
- Location: Remote (US/Canada)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $174K to $206K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/censys/jobs/8684280002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/censys-senior-distributed-systems-engineer/

## About the role

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. Censys operates distributed infrastructure for Internet-wide scanning, bulk DNS resolution, and X.509 certificate ingestion: your job will be to go below the surface of our data, and help us find and attribute ownership to assets and find how assets on the Internet relate to one another.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of software engineering experience building 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 or familiarity with message queue technologies, like: AWS Kinesis , Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other
- Experience working with databases, like: BigTable, Cloud Spanner, HBase, Cassandra, or other
- Understanding of core distributed systems concepts such as scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability

Tags: Engineering