Senior Software Engineer, Integrations

Location: 

This position is remote within the United States or Canada. 

Role Summary:

We’re looking for a Senior Integrations Software Engineer to help build and evolve our next-generation Censys Platform. You’ll work closely with product and engineering teams building, deploying and maintaining scalable integrations between our Censys platform and third-party systems such as SIEMs, SOARs, and Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs). These integrations connect Censys Platform with critical security platforms, enriching attack surface data and delivering actionable insights directly into the tools practitioners and CISOs depend on for visibility, threat hunting and incident response. You will play a critical part in helping organizations, governments, and critical security providers of all shapes and sizes truly understand everything on the Internet and help make it a safer place.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, implement and maintain robust integrations between Censys Platform and third-party SOAR, SIEM, TIPs solutions
• Develop and operate scalable, high-availability API connectors
• Maintain and improve existing Censys open source APIs
• Write and maintain internal pipelines and IaC to manage the deployment of new and existing Censys-hosted integrations and services
• Design automated solutions for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying applications in a continuous integration environment
• Maintain a strong customer focus, prioritizing customer feature requests and helping define the integrations roadmap
• Stay current on emerging SOAR, SIEM, and TIP technologies to guide integration strategy

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building and maintaining integrations or backend systems.
• Deep understanding of API-first development and service integration patterns
• Proven ability to integrate multiple APIs into a unified platform with well-defined service contracts
• Proficiency with Python (4+ yrs)
• Continuous drive to improve CI/CD processes and developer workflows
• Passion for writing clean, maintainable and scalable code
• Bias towards action and iterative approach to problem solving
• Ability to contribute thoughtfully to technical discussions and make data-driven decisions in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and documentation skills — able to clearly explain complex technical concepts across engineering and non-engineering teams

What Sets You Apart:

• Expertise with REST/gRPC and micro service architecture
• Working knowledge of GO (Golang) with 2+ years of experience building backend services or integrations
• Hands-on experience integrating with security platforms (e.g., Splunk, Cortex XSOAR, Anomali, Recorded Future).
• Strong interest in harnessing AI and ML tools as a force multiplier - using it to code smarter, iterate faster boosting productivity and enhancing product capabilities
• A cyber security engineering background
• Experience with multiple cloud providers, especially Google Cloud
• Proven success integrating with vendor marketplaces (e.g., AWS, Splunk)
• Familiarity with open-source security frameworks like Metasploit, recon-ng, nmap, Qualys, and Tenable
• Skilled in building, deploying, and maintaining containerized services in Kubernetes environments
• Background in distributed systems, observability, or data ingestion frameworks
• Experiencing in managing database migrations and architecting scalable data access patterns
• You understand the value of building maintainable software, while building new services you are ensuring test coverage is enforced by strong CI practices, adding linters and code complexity checks. You value clean abstraction, and promote established design patterns, but also know when to innovate beyond conventions

For high cost of living areas (San Francisco Bay, New York City, and Seattle), the expected salary range for this position is $171,000 USD - $205,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.

For all other US locations, the expected salary range for this position is $141,000 USD - $190,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity. Actual base salaries depend on level of experience and geographic location. 

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.