Tenable Hiring For Senior Software Engineer, Remote – Eastern US at Remote Work Full Time

Description

Your Role:

Tenable is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test (SET) to join Tenable’s Engineering organization to support our mission of efficient delivery of high quality solutions to our customers’ security problems. Focused on enabling customers to detect and respond effectively to new and emerging security threats across their IT landscape, the Tenable engineering organization is working at the cutting edge in this critical security space. In this role, you will be responsible for the testing strategy and execution for a product scrum team, charged with helping your engineering team design and implement the testing tools and infrastructure necessary to ensure that our systems meet our customer’s expectations towards reliability, scalability and performance. You’ll bring in expertise on testing strategy and execution and engage in cross-functional collaboration with other product and testing teams, to ensure consistent processes and tooling across engineering to deliver software of the highest quality.

Your Opportunity:

• Get in on the ground floor: in this role, you’ll have a broad scope with an opportunity to take on new responsibilities and grow as an engineer. As a senior member of the organization it will be on you to help drive the testing strategy for your team, and to set high standards across our teams.
• Innovate: As an organization, we run an “Innovation Sprint” at the start of every quarter where engineers can work on their own feature ideas, or try out new technologies.. You can demo your work in front of the rest of the company and pair up with people from other teams. 
• 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’s 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.
• Work at scale: You will have the ability to magnify your work by automating tests and ensuring quality of our solutions at all levels of the “test pyramid”.
• Show impact: You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on outcomes for our customers to ensure that they maintain the best experience when using our cloud platform.

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years software testing experience with a focus on functional test definition and test planning, test automation at all levels of the testing pyramid, and scalability and load testing and performance tooling in large scale, distributed systems. 
• Excellent analytical skills, with experience summarizing test results into meaningful reports to effectively communicate test coverage and code quality, as well as scalability, capacity and performance issues
• ​​Experience monitoring for defects and issues post-production, creating observability and logging strategies, and translating findings from production environments into actionable tests in development and staging environments.
• Solid experience with test harnesses and frameworks, such as pytest, Jest, Jasmine, Spock, Cucumber, etc. and with test automation and testing applications at the API layer, specifically RESTful APIs.
• Experience in different testing methodologies, such as: behavior-driven testing, synthetic testing, consumer-driven contract testing, unit testing, and integration testing.
• For roles on our Tenable.io teams, experience with testing in a microservices cloud-based architecture is a must.
• Experience developing in languages such as Python, Selenium and a willingness to learn new languages as needed.
• Experience in test management tools such as X-ray.
• Experience in System/AWS administration, TCP/IP networking, including protocol capture and analysis, system resource monitoring including OS-native tools and popular resource monitoring and log analysis stacks (ELK, TIG stack, Datadog, Splunk) is a plus.
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform), container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker), event store/messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) is a strong plus.
• Accountability for the behavior of your team’s 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.
• The desire to continuously learn and be exposed to new technologies
• BS in Computer Science or directly related field, or equivalent work experience.

If you’ve reached this point in the job description and feel you’re still not sure if you should apply…Just do it! We know there are no perfect applicants. You may not have 100% of all those bullets listed above – and that’s okay. If you’re feeling like you’re not going to fit in with our teams – that’s not ok. We’re One Tenable which means however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, we encourage you to submit an application if it’s a role you can be passionate about doing every day.

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.

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