Staff Software Engineer - Java/Kotlin, Distributed Systems

Your Role

Tenable is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our core product engineering team. Focused on designing, developing, and maintaining cloud-based, state-of-the-art search 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.

Data Management

This role will be responsible for managing the ingestion, storage, and retrieval of data within the platform. This includes ensuring the robustness and efficiency of these processes.

Leadership

As a senior member of the team, you will have the opportunity to architect, design, and implement features to help drive the overall architecture of our platform.

Innovate

Become a member of senior engineering teams driving ongoing innovation of our global cloud architecture and distributed systems that serve 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. Learn new things: 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 You'll Need

• Experience in Database performance tuning, schema design, query optimization in a distributed microservice architecture
• 8+ years of software development experience in enterprise development and a desire to lead
• Experience in software development, particularly within a distributed, microservice architecture
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or a directly related field, or equivalent work experience
• 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
• Experience with operational datastores, Kafka, or similar
• The desire to continuously learn and be exposed to new technologies

Base Pay Range

The base pay range for this position is $188,000—$250,666.67 USD. Employees are also eligible for variable compensation in addition to base pay (commission for sales roles, bonus for non-sales roles), depending on company and individual performance.

Benefits

Tenable offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefits which include: medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance; 401(k) retirement savings with company match; an employee stock purchase plan; an employee referral program; flexible spending accounts; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); education assistance; parental leave; paid time off (PTO); company-paid holidays; health and wellness events; and community programs.