Your Role:

Tenable is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Nessus development team. Nessus is 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 Staff Software Engineer, you will contribute towards designing, developing and maintaining the full Nessus product stack, from our Enterprise Cloud solution to our on-premises Nessus Professional product used by thousands of consultants worldwide.

Your Opportunity:

Work cross-functionally with other developers, front-end designers, product owners and various Tenable teams to design, develop and maintain new features for the Nessus product line Promote clear and simple software design while actively driving the team toward better practices and solutions Support a true DevOps / CICD software delivery model Promote high quality aimed at areas such as security, reliability, testability and maintainability Drive innovation by contributing new ideas for our processes, tools, and technologies Call out issues and help us fix them as we continuously improve Coach and mentor mid-level and junior staff

What You'll Need:

10+ years of relevant engineering experience Experience architecting and building high volume, fault-tolerant, highly available, and globally distributed systems in a cloud-native environment Experience developing in multiple languages such as: C/C++, Groovy, Node.js, Java, Javascript, Python, and a willingness to learn new languages as needed  Experience designing and developing Restful API’s. Excellent understanding and working knowledge of SQL 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 The desire to continuously learn and be exposed to new technologies

And Ideally:

Experience with technologies such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, AWS Use of automated environment management using Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Helm Familiarity with CI/CD process and tools for building, testing and delivering software with quality in a scalable fashion: Build Pipelines using Jenkins,  Bamboo, etc Unit, Component, Integration, and other Testing with Spock, JUnit, Postman, or PyTest Logging and Metrics  (Splunk, Datadog, Coralogix) Staying abreast of new technologies and methods to building software to high standards. (books, conferences, meetups, etc) Comfortable working on a team that experiments with its processes and practices as well as evolving them when necessary

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