# 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: Mid level
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $190K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/censys/jobs/8766980002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/censys-systems-engineer/

## About the role

The Systems Engineer will be a part of the Censys ARC (Advanced Research Collective) and will build and operate the pipelines and platforms that power Censys's threat detection and intelligence capabilities. This role will own the engineering behind static and dynamic file analysis at scale, and the graph-based systems that connect indicators, infrastructure, and actors into actionable threat intelligence.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years building security data pipelines, detection engineering systems, or threat intelligence platforms
- Experience with Synapse or other graph-based threat intel platforms (e.g., Maltego, Neo4j), including graph data modeling
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go
- Working knowledge of static and dynamic malware analysis (disassemblers, sandboxes such as Cuckoo/CAPE, debuggers) tooling and pipelines
- Experience with distributed data pipelines and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and data stores (Elasticsearch, S3, etc.)

Tags: Research