Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems & Performance Tuning

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 Distributed Data Systems &
Performance Tuning to join our core product engineering team. Focused on designing developing and maintaining cloud-based state-of-the-art solutions on top of our customers ever-evolving landscape of infrastructure in a scalable way. As a Staff Software Engineer on the team you will have the opportunity to be part of implementing and maintaining a highly scalable highly reliable cloud-native user interface and underlying microservices which utilize modern technologies and programming languages.

Your Opportunity:

• Get in on the ground floor: As a senior member of the team you will have the opportunity to design develop and implement features and help drive the overall architecture of our system
• Innovate: Become a member of senior engineering teams driving on-going innovation of our global cloud architecture and distributed systems that serves our broad customer base with the latest cyber security technologies
• Learn new things: We provide a training budget for you to attend conferences or workshops
• Raise the bar: We are always looking for ways to improve ourselves our tech stack and our products features. Bring your ideas and experiences to the table and help make a lasting impact
• Collaborate: Work closely with Product Managers other engineers designers and stakeholders to continuously iterate on our products and drive consensus. You will have the opportunity to support and mentor your peers inside and outside your team

What Youll Need:

• Able to work at Columbia MD Headquarters (3 days per week subject to
  change)
  
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or a directly related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience with operational data stores and Kafka
• Expertise in Database performance tuning schema design and indexing of large database in a distributed microservice architecture
• 8 years of software development experience in enterprise development and a desire to lead a fast-paced development team with the experience of balancing multiple tracks concurrently
• Extensive experience developing in Java or Kotlin and a willingness to learn new languages as needed
• Experience of working in containerized microservice architecture in Kubernetes
• Experience in developing core libraries infrastructure and search engines
• Cross-platform development is a big plus
• Accountability for the behavior of your software in production
• 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

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