Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

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Salary

$137K-$175K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

34% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company

Company stage

Growth-stage From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer Remote (US) 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. Role Summary: We're looking to hire a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to build scalable services and APIs that process vast amounts of data and make them highly available, providing direct value to customers and other parts of our organization. Censys operates distributed infrastructure for Internet-wide scanning and you will help us continue our mission to build the highest quality datasets and APIs that lead to insights about the Internet at large. At Censys, we believe in working iteratively, but we're always thinking about the big picture. We're expanding our data platform to enable future products and features to make the Internet an explainable map, providing additional, rich context, and showing complex relationships. We're looking for someone with an ownership mindset, is curious, can provide mentorship, and has a collaborative spirit for our mission. What You'll Do: - Build large scale, real-time streaming services and applications which leverage our massive datasets to power internal APIs and external applications. - Own the design and development phases of backend services and APIs that

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