Senior Software Engineer CC++

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:
At Tenable the work that we do matters in delivering industry-leading cyber exposure products. Our mission is to help our customers understand and manage their security vulnerabilities and effectively manage their cyber-exposure risk. Tenable is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Nessus Engines product team. Nessus is the #1 vulnerability scanner in the market and 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 Software Engineer on the Nessus team you will contribute towards designing developing and maintaining our Nessus product used by Enterprise customers to secure their networks thousands of consultants worldwide as well as home users hobbyists and students.

Your Opportunity:

• Make meaningful contributions to a product that forms the backbone of security infrastructure for companies and governments across the world
• Work cross-functionally with other developers UX designers product owners and various Tenable teams to design develop and maintain a world class product
• Design architect and code new features
• Promote clear and simple software design while actively driving the team toward better practices and solutions
• Promote high quality aimed at areas such as security reliability testability and maintainability
• Work with team and cross-team members to design develop debug and release production quality products.
• Drive innovation by contributing new ideas for our processes tools and technologies
• Coach and mentor mid-level and junior staff

What Youll Need:

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or a directly related field or equivalent work experience
• 8 years of software development experience in C and C and a willingness to learn new languages and technologies
• Experience in a custom scripting language or compiler development strongly preferred
• Strong experience in developing core libraries multi-threading infrastructure and/or software engines as well as network programming experience
• Experience with network security systems is a plus
• Background working in an Agile team and an enthusiasm for working collaboratively within and across product teams
• Able to adopt to coding best practices and standards
• Able to clearly document user stories/use cases functional specification and design
• Able to convert a problem statement to a design and implementation
• Experience coaching and leading mid-level and junior staff in the design implementation and execution of highly technical development projects
• The ability to work independently and as a part of a team and to lead/drive projects as necessary
• Knowledge of cross-platform development
• Strong understanding of design patterns and data structures

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