Software Engineer II – Backend

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of small-to-medium product API features, overseeing the process from technical design to launch, monitoring, and iteration.

• Create and enhance public REST and gRPC APIs focused on Exposure Management and Supplier Risk Intelligence.

• Develop risk event endpoints that facilitate SIEM integrations with platforms such as Splunk, Google SecOps, and Microsoft Sentinel.

• Collaborate with frontend engineers and product stakeholders on API contracts, including aspects like filtering, pagination, and response formats.

• Integrate data and services from other teams at Censys using gRPC and GCP PubSub.

• Analyze and optimize API performance, encompassing Postgres query plans, indexing, caching, and payload size.

• Write tests, enhance observability, and assume release and on-call responsibilities for deployed services.

• Incorporate customer feedback into design discussions to improve API features.

• Assist in onboarding interns and newer engineers to the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend service development.

• Proven production experience with Go, or substantial experience in Python or Java with a strong desire to quickly gain proficiency in Go.

• Familiarity with designing and consuming REST or gRPC APIs.

• Strong SQL skills and a working knowledge of relational data modeling, indexing, and query performance optimization.

• Demonstrated ability to build maintainable software, including CI-enforced tests, effective monitoring and alerting, and thorough code reviews.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills when collaborating with engineers, product managers, and other teams.

• A curious mindset and eagerness to learn new domains, tools, and aspects of the tech stack.

• Experience with security products, attack surface management, third-party risk, or vulnerability management.

• Background in creating APIs for external developers or partners, covering OpenAPI specifications, versioning, and webhooks.

• Exposure to event-driven systems such as GCP PubSub or Kafka, along with an understanding of idempotency and retry mechanisms.

• Experience in deploying containerized services on Kubernetes within GCP or AWS.

• Proficiency with AI coding tools.

• Basic understanding of Internet technologies, including DNS record types, WHOIS, and Certificate Subject Alternative Names (SANs).

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility

• Equity

• 401k match

• Health insurance

• Vision insurance

• Dental insurance

• Benefits effective from day one

• Identity verification through CLEAR for candidates receiving an offer