Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Censys builds an Internet intelligence platform that maps the Internet and provides actionable threat insights. The Engineering Manager will lead the Data Collection team, owning people leadership, technical strategy, roadmap delivery, and operational health across systems that discover, scan, and collect Internet data.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop Scanner Engineers and Distributed Systems Engineers
- Set clear expectations for ownership, quality, collaboration, delivery, and operational responsibility
- Provide timely feedback, create meaningful growth plans, and delegate ownership of systems, projects, and decisions
- Build a healthy, accountable team; identify staffing needs; and maintain a high bar for hiring, onboarding, and performance management
- Define the Data Collection roadmap with Product, Research, Infrastructure, and engineering stakeholders
- Connect priorities to measurable improvements in data coverage, freshness, fidelity, reliability, scalability, and cost
- Keep the team focused on the highest-value work while managing scope, dependencies, staffing, and risk
- Lead major initiatives from discovery through production delivery, clearly communicating timelines, tradeoffs, and risks
- Translate research and exploratory work into maintainable production capabilities when appropriate
- Guide architecture across Internet scanning, orchestration, protocol implementations, distributed services, ingestion pipelines, APIs, and operational tooling
- Establish standards for design, testing, rollout safety, observability, service ownership, and operational readiness
- Be accountable for the quality, availability, maintainability, and cost efficiency of the team's systems
- Define and use metrics for scan execution, pipeline health, data freshness, protocol coverage, failure rates, and resource consumption
- Support sustainable on-call and incident-management practices, ensuring follow-up addresses systemic causes
- Identify architectural bottlenecks and strategic technical debt, evaluate the cost and benefit of addressing them, and recommend priorities
Skills
- Engineering management or team leadership experience (three years)
- A track record of leading a substantial technical initiative from planning through production delivery
- Prior experience as a software or systems engineer building and operating production systems
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and TLS
- Experience with data-intensive systems such as streaming services, ingestion pipelines, message queues, databases, schedulers, or high-throughput APIs
- Experience operating critical systems in production, including monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability improvement
- The technical fluency to contribute to architecture discussions, assess implementation risks, and support complex incident analysis
- Demonstrated success developing engineers through coaching, feedback, and delegation, including engineers with different specialties
- Strong project-management and communication skills, with the ability to turn broad objectives into clear priorities, milestones, and outcomes
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with Internet-scale scanning, network measurement, telemetry, security data, or distributed collection systems
- Experience with Cloud stacks, like Google Cloud Platform or similar
- Experience with streaming platforms or large-scale data stores such as Pub/Sub, Kafka, Bigtable, Spanner, or comparable technologies
- A background in cybersecurity, Internet measurement, threat intelligence, security research, or productionizing research systems
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental & vision coverage
- Retirement with company contribution
- Parental leave
- Mental health & wellness benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Professional development stipend
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
- Remote work across the continental US
- In-person onboarding at the HQ in Ann Arbor
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