Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tenable is the Exposure Management company that helps organizations understand and reduce cyber risk. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain cloud-based search solutions while managing data ingestion, storage, and retrieval processes.
Responsibilities
- 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 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 product 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Cross-platform development is a big plus
Benefits
- Variable compensation in addition to base pay (commission for sales roles, bonus for non-sales roles), depending on company and individual performance
- 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
- Community programs
- Training budget for you to attend conferences or workshops
Company Overview
Tenable provides an exposure management platform to identify and mitigate risks. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.tenable.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Tenable has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 4 in 2025, 8 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 14 in 2022, 7 in 2021, 8 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.