Engineering Manager, Data Collection & Scanning

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CensysCybersecurity, Internet intelligence
For this role, we are open to remote employees across the continental US.Full-TimeManager
SalaryFor all other locations, the expected salary range for this position is $151,000 USD - $191,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
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Job Details

Experience
Engineering management or team leadership experience (three years)
Required Skills
Distributed SystemsNetworking

Requirements

  • Have three years of engineering management or team leadership experience.
  • Have led a substantial technical initiative from planning through production delivery.
  • Have prior experience as a software or systems engineer building and operating production systems.
  • Have strong knowledge of distributed systems and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and TLS.
  • Have experience with data-intensive systems such as streaming services, ingestion pipelines, message queues, databases, schedulers, or high-throughput APIs.
  • Have experience operating critical production systems, including monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability improvement.
  • Be able to contribute to architecture discussions, assess implementation risks, and support complex incident analysis.
  • Have experience developing engineers through coaching, feedback, and delegation, including engineers with different specialties.
  • Have project-management and communication skills to turn broad objectives into clear priorities, milestones, and outcomes.
  • Have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop Scanner Engineers and Distributed Systems Engineers.
  • Set team expectations for ownership, quality, collaboration, delivery, and operational responsibility.
  • Define the Data Collection roadmap with Product, Research, Infrastructure, and engineering stakeholders.
  • Prioritize work against measurable improvements in data coverage, freshness, fidelity, reliability, scalability, and cost.
  • Lead major initiatives from discovery through production delivery, communicating timelines, tradeoffs, and risks.
  • 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.
  • 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 and follow up on systemic causes.
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For all other locations, the expected salary range for this position is $151,000 USD - $191,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
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