Staff Software Engineer

Who is Tenable

Tenable is the Exposure Management company. 44000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500 45 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!

What makes Tenable such a great place to work

Ask a member of our team and theyll answer Our people! We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging respect and excellence where we can be our best selves. When youre part of our #OneTenable team you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!

Your Role:

Tenable is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Nessus development team. Nessus is the core of the Tenable network security product line enabling organizations to address the ever-evolving challenge of understanding and mitigating their cybersecurity risk. As a Staff Software Engineer you will contribute towards designing developing and maintaining the full Nessus product stack from our Enterprise Cloud solution to our on-premises Nessus Professional product used by thousands of consultants worldwide.

Your Opportunity:

• Work cross-functionally with other developers front-end designers product owners and various Tenable teams to design develop and maintain new features for the Nessus product line
• Promote clear and simple software design while actively driving the team toward better practices and solutions
• Support a true DevOps / CICD software delivery model
• Promote high quality aimed at areas such as security reliability testability and maintainability
• Drive innovation by contributing new ideas for our processes tools and technologies
• Call out issues and help us fix them as we continuously improve
• Coach and mentor mid-level and junior staff

What Youll Need:

• 10 years of relevant engineering experience
• Experience architecting and building high volume fault-tolerant highly available and globally distributed systems in a cloud-native environment
• Experience developing in multiple languages such as: C/C Groovy Java Javascript Python and a willingness to learn new languages as needed
• Experience designing and developing Restful APIs.
• Excellent understanding and working knowledge of SQL
• Experience coaching and leading mid-level and junior staff in the design implementation and execution of highly technical development projects
• Experience in working in an Agile team and an enthusiasm for working collaboratively within and across product teams
• The ability to work independently and as a part of a team and to lead/drive projects as necessary
• The desire to continuously learn and be exposed to new technologies

And Ideally:

• Experience with technologies such as Cassandra Elasticsearch Kafka AWS
• Use of automated environment management using Kubernetes Docker and/or Helm
• Familiarity with CI/CD process and tools for building testing and delivering software with quality in a scalable fashion:
• Build Pipelines using Jenkins Bamboo etc
• Unit Component Integration and other Testing with Spock JUnit Postman or PyTest Logging and Metrics (Splunk Datadog Coralogix)
• Staying abreast of new technologies and methods to building software to high standards. (books conferences meetups etc)
• Comfortable working on a team that experiments with its processes and practices as well as evolving them when necessary

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