Tenable is a cybersecurity company that helps organizations understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk.

Tenable

Who is Tenable?

Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. 44,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 45 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:

The Research Engineer will be involved with researching existing vulnerabilities, looking for new vulnerabilities, and developing checks/plugins to detect these vulnerabilities via our products.
Your Opportunity:

Works on advanced research and development initiatives
Implements detection logic and scripts while minimizing false positives & false negatives
Participates in detection logic discussions and the research of new methods for detection
Helps other researchers on the team, when needed
Develop detection scripts for Tenable’s sensors (Nessus vulnerability scanner and others) based on the research findings
Keep abreast with the advancements and developments in the security industry and perform research to keep our customers secure
Research and develop methods of detection for additional services and products from different vendors
May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time

What You'll Need:

B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Good programming skills in at least one language
Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision as well as collaborate and work with others as part of the larger research team
Experience working with multiple operating systems (proficiency with Linux a must)
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Strong attention to detail and able to shift priorities as needed
Willingness to explore and learn
At least 2 years of R&D experience
Ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods of time
Some travel may be required

And Ideally:

In depth understanding of common security vulnerabilities, CVSS scoring, vulnerability detection, exploitation and classification techniques
Strong knowledge of networking services, common protocols, etc.
Experience with search engines such as Shodan and Censys
Some experience with pen-testing, researching, discovering, and publishing vulnerabilities
Some reverse engineering experience including basic binary analysis, packet capture analysis, and firmware analysis (using binwalk). Prior experience with debuggers, disassemblers or decompilers (e.g. IDA Pro, Immunity Debugger, gdb)
Experience with C or C++, Assembly (x86/x64 and/or ARM/ARM64) and / or scripting languages
One or more security related certifications (e.g. OSCP)
Experience with systems administration and be comfortable working at the command line
Understanding of common security vulnerabilities, vulnerability classification, detection and exploitation techniques
Reverse engineering experience including binary analysis, packet capture analysis, and firmware analysis (using binwalk or other). Prior experience with debuggers, disassemblers or decompilers (e.g. IDA Pro, Immunity Debugger, gdb)
Experience with crash dump analysis and some exploit development
In-depth protocol analysis and interaction. Knowledge of common protocols such as HTTP, DNS, SSH, SMB, etc. and fuzzing
Some prior experience performing open-ended research when given high-level requirements and details of the desired output
Experience with researching, discovering, and publishing vulnerabilities
Experience with C or C++, Assembly (x86/x64 and/or ARM/ARM64) and scripting languagesSome experience writing blogs and whitepapers to showcase research as well as presenting at security conferences

🧐 Research Engineer


Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. 44,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 45 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: Tenable is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong experience in building reliable and performant SaaS platforms. In this position, you will be part of a team responsible for the design, development and operation of services and APIs for large scale Cloud Native SaaS applications. 

Our system's core architecture is an event-driven system that relies on Kafka and AWS SQS. We are using Kotlin and Go to build our microservices. We adhere to DevOps methodology relentlessly and have enabled the team to be fully autonomous. Our teams build and own products end-to-end.

Your Opportunity:

Growth and Development: As part of working on a small but strong team, you'll have a broad scope as a Senior software engineer. You will team up with engineers to drive initiatives, define the architecture, and build new features.

Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, other engineers, designers, and stakeholders to continuously iterate on our products.

Creativity: We welcome engineers who are motivated and come up with their own ideas to help us build a better product.

Architecture & Design: Help with design decisions and the ability to understand and improve our engine performance and stability.

Integrate an early-stage taskforce working with lightweight develop workflows and requiring a high-level of autonomy.

Contribute not only to the teams' product and services but also improve the Continuous Delivery platform, shared libraries and tenables infrastructure.

Constantly communicate with all parties involved in a project to ensure a high-quality product release.

What You'll Need:

Practical, hands-on, previous experience on a full-time engineering team using JVM-based languages. An understanding and working knowledge of Kotlin is highly preferred.

Experience leading and owning all technical aspects of a product end to end.

Experience contributing to products and libraries developed in Kotlin or Golang (backend, database, etc.)

Experience building and running applications at enterprise scale in production.

7+ years of software development experience

Development experience working in cloud-based microservices environments

Operational experience with microservices architectures and its associated design patterns

Strong understanding of data structures.

A DevOps mindset and desire to ship great software quickly

Design high-availability services to streamline the processing of large sets of data 

Knowledge of modern DevOps services (Kubernetes services, Prometheus, etc.)

Previous experience in queue-based architectures (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.)

Previous experience working with AWS services

Role challenges and responsibilities

This is a senior role at Tenable, the leader in Vulnerability Management and Exposure Management, working on the Container Security team that would essentially build a product scanning Docker containers and detecting vulnerabilities. 

This role involves working in a cutting-edge technology stack (Kafka, AWS SQS, Kotlin, Go, Kubernetes), using development practices embracing DevOps methodologies. Teams at Tenable have autonomy and ownership in an innovative environment and a collaborative engineering-driven culture.

Key problems to tackle:

Scalability and Reliability of large-scale Cloud Native SaaS applications

Complexity of Microservices Architecture

Continuous Delivery and DevOps Practices

Data Processing for large datasets with petabytes of data

Adapting to Rapid Technological Changes

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