Software Engineer (Backend), Core Services

Location: 

This position is 100% remote within the United States or Canada. 

Role Summary

We're hiring a Software Engineer II to join the Core Services team, which is the platform team that authentication, authorization, identity, and account management across Censys are built on. In this role you'll work alongside experienced engineers to extend our RBAC controls, build new capabilities like group management, build event pipelines, and help evolve the public Censys API. We're looking for an engineer with solid Go fundamentals and, above all, the drive and ownership instinct to see work through from design to production.

What You'll Do

• Extend and improve our role-based access control systems, building fine-grained permission models that meet the needs of enterprise customers
• Design and build new platform features including group management and expanded functionality to our existing enterprise authentication mechanisms (SAML / SCIM)
• Implement clean, well-tested microservices with clear APIs and proper error handling
• Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to clarify requirements, drive technical decisions on features you own, and ship on a regular cadence
• Share on-call responsibilities for the services the team owns and handle straightforward incidents with the team supporting
• Contribute to the developer experience for both internal teams and external API consumers as platform capabilities grow

What You'll Bring

• 2-4 years of software engineering experience
• Solid Go (Golang) implementation skills — clean code, idiomatic error handling, effective use of the standard library
• Experience building and shipping backend services in a cloud environment (GCP or AWS)
• A track record of delivering feature work at high quality and seeing it through to production
• Strong ownership instinct and drive, to identify what needs to be done, ask the right questions early, and follow through
• Clear communication and the ability to collaborate effectively with product and engineering stakeholders

What Sets You Apart

• Familiarity with identity concepts: SSO, SAML, OIDC, or SCIM
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Comfort in a distributed systems context
• Experience working on systems where correctness and security properties matter

For high cost of living areas (San Francisco Bay, New York City, and Seattle), the expected salary range for this position is $143,000 USD - $177,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity. 

For all other US locations, the expected salary range for this position is $125,000 USD - $165,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.  

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 83% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Censys offers a competitive benefits package to employees, including equity, health, dental & vision coverage, retirement with company contribution, parental leave, mental health & wellness benefits, flexible PTO, and a professional development stipend. Censys also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Censys’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please see our careers page for more details.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to your recruiter. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates to keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired, we would love to bring you to our HQ in Ann Arbor for in-person onboarding.

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Our roots are in Ann Arbor, Michigan and our innovation is fueled by the team’s global perspectives. For this role, we are open to remote employees across the continental US. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Censys is an equal opportunity employer.

 

Note to external recruiters/agencies: We are not currently engaging with third-party agencies for this role and will not accept unsolicited outreach. We kindly ask that you do not submit resumes or candidate profiles to our team.