Senior Research Engineer CC++

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Your Role:

Tenable is not only building great products and carving out a completely new category but we are also building a world-class engineering culture and committed to hiring the very best.

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Research Engineer to join our NASL Integrations Research Engineering Team. This position will involve developing and maintaining integrations for Tenable products such as Nessus Tenable Vulnerability Management and Security Center to communicate with 3rd party enterprise software such as Privileged Access Management Mobile Device Management and Virtualization software.

Your Opportunity:

• Technical analysis of 3rd party software APIs
• Develop and maintain integration code written in NASL
• Lead technical projects in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with other teams to extend NASL libraries and extend product UIs as needed
• Create or improve processes to produce faster and/or better outcomes
• Review current projects and understand the challenges that may need to be overcome for those projects to succeed
• Developing on many different platform languages depending on the current task
• Assess how secure a design may be when implemented
• Collaborate with your team and other teams to produce clearly planned work
• Mentoring of other peers to help guide projects to success
• Provide documentation and training to other Tenable members so they can effectively use the solutions provided
• Take ownership of your projects and ensure their status is continually documented and communicated with management and co-workers
• Develop documentation for customers and other Tenable members related to the functionality and usage of NASL Integrations
• Leverage maintain and configure lab environment for team-related projects
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of Tenable products and information security best-practices
• May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time

What Youll Need:

• Able to work at Columbia MD Headquarters (3 days per week subject to change)
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrably strong programming skills in C or C. Python Ruby Perl and concepts such as Object Oriented Programming
• Exposure to software development life cycle (SDLC) concepts and Agile methodology
• A solid understanding of the needs to architect and develop security products
• Able to work both in a self-directed manner and as part of a team
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Able to respond quickly and shift priorities as needed
• Able to provide and receive constructive feedback during code review and design review
• Strong ability to communicate plans ideas and project details to involved members and key stakeholders verbally and written
• Experience developing enterprise level security products
• Experience with developing protocols (examples : SSHSSLREST)
• Experience with all platforms (Windows Linux MacOS)

And Ideally:

• Experience developing in the NASL programming language
• Skilled in presentation on complex topics
• Training of peers on new concepts and processes
• Skills to keep complex information organized and understandable
• Knowledge about developing successful processes

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