Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

About the position

We're hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer. In this role, you will work on the Core Services team, which is the foundational group responsible for building and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers authentication, authorization, analytics, and user/account management across our platform. You will play a key part in shaping secure and scalable systems that support our core business capabilities. This will involve working closely with product and engineering stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into robust, extensible, and maintainable software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend services to provide new core functionality to the platform
• Expand our authentication, authorization, and analytics capabilities
• Build, test, deploy, and monitor a distributed set of services
• Work with the product team, designers, and other engineering teams
• Expand the Censys public API to reflect growing capabilities on the platform

Requirements

• Experience writing backend services in Golang
• Understanding of distributed systems and the challenges that come with them
• General knowledge of database design and common access patterns
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)
• Strong collaborative and teamwork skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building services within GCP
• Experience using Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with SSO, SAML, and/or OIDC

Benefits

• 401k match
• health insurance
• vision insurance
• dental insurance
• bonus eligibility
• equity