Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Platform

Company Background

Censys’ mission is to be the one place to understand everything on the internet. Frustrated by the lack of trustworthy Internet intelligence, we set out to create the industry’s most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the Internet. Today, Censys delivers real-time Internet intelligence and actionable threat insights to global governments, over 50% of the Fortune 500, and leading threat intelligence providers worldwide.

Location: 

This position is remote within the United States or Canada.

Role Summary:

Censys is seeking a high-caliber Senior Full-Stack Engineer with a strong backend focus to help build and evolve our next-generation Censys Platform. In this role, you’ll develop scalable microservices and design robust APIs that power our SaaS product. While your primary focus will be backend systems, you’ll also contribute to frontend development to deliver intuitive, crafted user experiences. You’ll work closely with product and engineering teams to translate complex requirements into well-architected, maintainable software that powers critical security insights. Your contributions will help users explore and understand the global Internet, enabling them to uncover threats and better protect their organizations.

• Partner with Product, Design, and Frontend Engineers to deliver features that solve real customer problems
• Design, build, and enhance backend services that power core functionality across the Censys Platform
• Integrate with internal and external APIs to support rich, data-driven experiences
• Own the full development lifecycle by automating build, test, deployment, and monitoring workflows
• Contribute to an iterative development process that emphasizes continuous improvement and rapid feedback

• 4+ years of professional experience building distributed web applications, APIs, and frontends
• Expertise building backend microservices in Golang
• Strong experience with common web programming languages such as TypeScript and JavaScript, and at least proficiency in one frontend web framework (e.g. React, Angular, Vue, or Next)
• Familiarity with Docker and interest in improving our CI/CD deployment process
• Desire to improve test coverage and increase code maintainability

• You thrive in a fast-paced environment where change is constant, and you are able to navigate with ease and adaptability
• You take ownership of projects and don’t wait for direction—you proactively find ways to move forward
• You believe that to be your best, you need to work alongside the best, and you welcome constructive feedback as part of a growth mindset
• You hold yourself to high standards, striving for excellence in everything you do
• You proactively seek opportunities to go above and beyond, driving innovation, improving efficiency, and enhancing the team's overall output
• Your soft skills are just as strong as your technical expertise—you excel at collaboration and communication, and people looking forward to working with you

• Believe that engineering’s role ends once the code is delivered, rather than throughout the product life cycle
• Don’t value the code review process or resist constructive feedback
• Settle for the status quo and don’t seek improvement
• Prefer to wait for direction instead of taking the initiative
• Don’t enjoy supporting and mentoring your colleagues to foster team growth

Our target salary range for this role is between $135,000 USD and $180,000 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.

In addition to our great compensation package, our benefits are effective on day one and include but are not limited to: 401k match, health, vision, dental, and more! Please see our careers page for more details.

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 and Canada. 

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.