Senior Engineering Manager – Web Application Scanning

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Your Role:

Tenable is redefining how organizations understand and reduce cyber exposure. Were building intelligent scalable security platforms to empower defendersand we need strong technical leaders to guide the engineering journey.

As a Senior Engineering Manager youll lead engineering teams responsible for Tenables Web Application Scanning (WAS) productour advanced scanner that detects and reports web-based security vulnerabilities across a diverse range of enterprise applications and environments. You may also expand your ownership to include another product area within our Vulnerability Management portfolio.

Were seeking someone who thrives on customer-centric innovation has a strong technical foundation and is energized by building high-performance distributed teams.

Your Opportunity:

• Own and drive execution for the WAS product delivering customer-centric features across both SaaS and on-prem deployments
• Lead 12 engineering teams (including managers and ICs) balancing architecture oversight technical excellence and execution rigor
• Partner closely with Product UX Security Research and Architecture teams to define roadmaps set priorities and shape the future of WAS and adjacent products
• Cultivate a strong engineering culture focused on ownership reliability quality and continuous improvement
• Develop scalable engineering processes across agile CI/CD and cloud-native environments
• Mentor engineers and frontline managers to grow their capabilities and career trajectories
• Support customer engagements and critical escalations championing operational excellence
• Drive innovation through a balance of technical depth risk-taking and customer empathy

What Youll Need:

• Able to work at Columbia MD Headquarters (3 days per week subject to change)
• 6 years of engineering leadership experience with 2 years in managing managers or large multi-pod teams
• Proven success delivering cloud-native security or platform software products (ideally in SaaS and on-prem environments)
• Strong technical background in Java Kotlin or similar backend stack with experience in microservices architecture
• Deep understanding of web application security principles vulnerability scanning and secure SDLC practices
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems using AWS Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
• Passion for building inclusive accountable and collaborative teams that deliver
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 HTTP protocol intricacies browser behaviors and dynamic/static analysis tools is a big plus
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or a related field

And Ideally:

• Hands-on experience with web vulnerability scanning engines dynamic application security testing (DAST) or similar tooling
• Knowledge of web technologies such as HTML5 JavaScript frameworks REST APIs and modern authentication standards
• Experience integrating security products with enterprise ecosystems (e.g. ticketing SIEM reporting tools)
• Familiarity with DevSecOps SBOM and modern supply chain security trends
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team collaboration across product boundaries and time zones

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