Senior Backend Engineer

Tenable is the Exposure Management company serving 44,000 organizations globally, supporting 65% of Fortune 500 and 45% of Global 2000 companies.
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
Cybersecurity

Description For Senior Backend Engineer

Tenable, the leading Exposure Management company, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Identity Security platform team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in cybersecurity, helping protect organizations worldwide. The position involves working with modern technologies including Kotlin, SQL databases, Apache Kafka, and cloud infrastructure on AWS.

The team culture emphasizes collaboration, product excellence, and continuous learning in cybersecurity. You'll be part of an environment where knowledge sharing and technical discussions are regular occurrences, and where you'll have direct interaction with product management and security researchers.

The technical environment is modern and sophisticated, featuring event-driven architecture, container-based deployment with Kubernetes, and a strong focus on observability and monitoring. You'll work on building and scaling identity security solutions, developing high-performance services, and creating robust data processing pipelines.

As part of the #OneTenable team, you'll collaborate with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, with access to the support and resources needed to do work that truly matters. The company serves 44,000 organizations globally, including 65% of the Fortune 500 and 45% of the Global 2000, making this an opportunity to create significant impact in the cybersecurity space.

The ideal candidate will bring strong backend development experience, particularly with Kotlin and SQL, and a solid understanding of distributed systems. Experience with cloud-native development, database performance tuning, and previous exposure to cybersecurity would be particularly valuable.

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Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer

  • Design and implement high-performance, scalable backend services in Kotlin
  • Develop and optimize SQL workflows to manage high data volume
  • Build robust data processing pipelines for identity and access management data
  • Create efficient APIs that power our security analytics engine
  • Collaborate on database design and optimization
  • Write comprehensive unit and integration tests
  • Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions
  • Manage and secure digital identities across cloud platforms
  • Detect and remediate security vulnerabilities
  • Analyze and optimize access patterns
  • Ensure compliance with security standards

Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer

Kotlin
PostgreSQL
Kafka
Node.js
Kubernetes
  • Successful experience in backend development
  • Strong proficiency in Kotlin or similar object oriented language
  • Professional-level SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases at scale
  • Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices
  • Solid understanding of concurrent and distributed systems

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