# Staff Scanning 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)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $198K to $233K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/censys/jobs/8730687002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/censys-staff-scanning-engineer/

## About the role

Censys is building the most credible, robust map of the Internet through IP scanning, DNS lookups, web crawling, and the ingestion of millions of certificates. Censys was founded by security researchers who are passionate about developing technology that provides anyone the power to fully understand their digital risk and exposure. Individuals and enterprises–and anyone in between–can harness this power to discover new information and insight as the Internet, IoT and Cloud evolve.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of software engineering experience building production systems
- Strong backend engineering experience in systems such as data ingestion pipelines, scanning systems, crawlers, schedulers, APIs, storage systems, or high-throughput services
- Experience designing and operating systems that handle large-scale data, high request volume, or Internet-scale workloads
- Strong programming experience, we primarily use Go
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with message queues or streaming systems such as Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, Kinesis, or similar technologies

Tags: Engineering