Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Apr 3, 2026. Tenable scores B on the Alion truth index.
Who is Tenable?
Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. Over 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 50 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!
What makes Tenable such a great place to work?
Ask a member of our team and they’ll answer, “Our people!” We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. 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!
Your Role:
- Design and develop complex, scalable, and high-performance features and systems within your team, ensuring clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and fellow engineers to help shape technical approaches and project plans for your team’s roadmap.
- Provide technical input and recommendations to ensure solutions align with business objectives, compliance standards, and long-term maintainability, escalating cross-team architectural questions to staff/principal engineers as needed.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues within your team’s systems, driving root cause analysis and fixes, and escalating the most critical, cross-system issues appropriately.
- Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and day-to-day guidance, helping raise the quality bar within the team.
- Review team members’ code with a focus on improving design and implementation quality.
Your Opportunity:
- Develop and maintain key components and features, integrating new functionality and helping maintain the reliability and scalability of core infrastructure.
- Contribute to the evolution of software applications, database integration, interfaces, and system enhancements to meet business needs.
- Support automation, testing, and continuous deployment processes to ensure smooth and reliable delivery of new features.
- Own well-scoped projects from design through delivery, contributing ideas to design decisions and technical direction within your team.
What You'll Need:
- BSc in Computer Science or an equivalent degree from a recognized institution, or an exceptional track record in server-side development with advanced technical expertise.
- 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a proven ability to solve complex problems and deliver reliably within a team.
- Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as C/C++, C#, Java, Go, Python, with an ability to adapt to new technologies as needed.
- Solid experience building scalable systems, with a strong understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and cloud-native development.
- Experience designing and deploying services on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong technical skills, with experience reviewing code, mentoring less experienced engineers day-to-day, and contributing to technical decisions within the team.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver reliably under tight deadlines.
If you’ve reached this point, and you’re still not sure if you should apply…..Just do it! We’re human and we don’t fit a perfect mold. Having diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, that’s a good thing! If you’re coming from outside of the cyber industry - great! If you’re looking to try something new - awesome! All we ask is you bring passion to all that you do, crave creativity and innovation, and embrace the hard work of gaining new skills and accepting big challenges.
We’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. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.
We’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. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.
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