Tenable · 1 week ago
Staff Software / Site Reliability Engineer
Tenable is the Exposure Management company that helps organizations manage and reduce cyber risk. In this role, you will work on their cloud-based vulnerability management platform, ensuring its reliability and availability for private cloud environments while collaborating with cloud engineers and contributing to the software development lifecycle.
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Responsibilities
Responsible for taking the code and functionality of Tenable cloud products and ensuring they’re reliable and highly available in private cloud environments
Responsible for responding to support escalations which involve troubleshooting complex technical problems and resolving data/configuration issues within defined service level objectives
Responsible for developing software, tools, and scripts to automate deployment, management, and monitoring of production systems in all environments
Provide strategic and thought leadership among peers on complex projects
Collaboration with cloud engineers in understanding new cloud technologies, assessing impact to security services operations, and proposing solutions to existing business problems
Collaboration in the software development lifecycle to develop detailed enhancement/bug definitions, write functional requirements, translate the requirements into solution designs, and navigate the functional requirements through to Production deployments
Proactively look for ways to create efficiencies within operations as it pertains to the tools and technology used by Tenable to support their customer base
Manage, participate in, or directly work on any additional projects, assignments, or initiatives assigned by management
Create/maintain documentation for operational procedures
Drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and services in conjunction with embedded SREs throughout the organization
Document and perform system upgrades, application updates, and define monitoring requirements based on customer needs
Participate in an on-call rotation and support 24x7 availability of production application systems
Remediate infrastructure and container security vulnerabilities
Qualification
Required
U.S citizen required
6+ years of related SRE experience
Apply core software engineering fundamentals (e.g., data structures, algorithms, concurrency, system design) to solve complex reliability and scalability challenges at a distributed level
Experience with Terraform or similar IaC technologies
2+ year experience with platform development in compliance with FedRAMP requirements and related government standards, policies, regulations, etc
3+ years deploying public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) preferred including administering managed AWS services (EKS, OpenSearch, MSK, Batch, etc.)
Experience with orchestration tooling such as Kubernetes
Experience with Docker or similar container solution
Bachelor's Degree or Master's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Information Technology Engineering or equivalent work experience
Strong experience with the Agile software development methodology and collaboration with internal teams to deliver software and configuration artifacts
Strong background in bash scripting in addition to experience in higher-level scripting languages like Python or Node.js
Experience leading projects through to completion with a team of peers
Experience deploying distributed, microservice oriented applications at scale
Be an enthusiastic learner, user, and advocate of our technologies
Has desire to win as a team – make big things happen by working together and being open and willing to try new ideas
Strong interpersonal and communications skills (written, verbal, & virtual) with ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
Must have high degree of personal integrity and ability to maintain strict confidentiality
Must have a strong drive, be self-motivated, logical, and have a keen attention to detail
Preferred
Experience deploying distributed, microservice oriented applications
Experience with distributed monitoring tools such as: Datadog, Splunk, OTEL, etc
Experience with datastore technologies: Kafka, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL
Experience with Helm
Experience with Go, Java/Kotlin, and/or Groovy
Experience with Java build tools including Gradle
2+ years of operational experience with industry-leading 'big data' services technologies
Benefits
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
Company
Tenable
Tenable provides an exposure management platform to identify and mitigate risks.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$565.44MKey Investors
Insight PartnersAccel
2020-07-29Post Ipo Equity· $255.6M
2018-07-26IPO
2017-07-03Secondary Market
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