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When you're part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!\nApplicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without sponsorship. We are unable to provide sponsorship for work visas of any kind at the time of hire, or at any point during employment. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, J-1, etc.\nYour Role:\nTenable 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.\nYour Opportunity:\nBuilding the Backbone, not just Processing Data: This role centers on crafting the services that enable data ingestion, storage, querying, and retrieval at scale. It's about building the reliable and efficient 'plumbing' that powers the entire data ecosystem. A critical aspect of this job is to build and manage services around data handling. Unlike typical data engineering roles that might focus primarily on querying and data manipulation, this role also demands building the infrastructure and services that support these activities.\nData 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\nLeadership: 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\nInnovate: 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\nLearn new things: We provide a training budget for you to attend conferences or workshops\nRaise 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\nCollaborate: 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\nWhat You'll Need:\nExperience in Database performance tuning, schema design, query optimization in a distributed microservice architecture\n8+ years of software development experience in enterprise development and a desire to lead\nExperience in software development, particularly within a distributed, microservice architecture\nB.S. degree in Computer Science or a directly related field, or equivalent work experience\nExperience developing in Java or Kotlin, and a willingness to learn new languages as needed\nExperience of working in containerized microservice architecture in Kubernetes\nExperience in developing core libraries, infrastructure, and search engines\nCross-platform development is a big plus\nAccountability for the behavior of your software in production\nExperience coaching and leading mid-level and junior staff in the design, implementation, and execution of highly technical development projects\nExperience in working in an Agile team, and an enthusiasm for working collaboratively within and across product teams\nThe ability to work independently and as a part of a team, and to lead/drive projects as necessary\nExperience with operational datastores, Kafka, or similar\nThe desire to continuously learn and be exposed to new technologies\n#LI-LP1\nWe're committed to promoting Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) at Tenable - through all equal employment opportunity laws and regulations at the international, federal, state and local levels. 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