Senior Software Engineer – Event Sourcing & Stream Processing

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Your Role

Senior Software Engineer on the VM Platform team. The team sits at the center of our Tenable One architecture; we ingest massive volumes of assets and find data from collection teams, process it to calculate the “state of the world” for our customers, and feed it to downstream search and reporting products.

We are not just building web apps; we are solving a complex Big Data problem. You will build and maintain high-throughput, event-driven pipelines responsible for processing the history of assets and vulnerabilities. You will move beyond simple CRUD operations to design systems that handle massive scale, ensuring that when we say an asset is vulnerable (or patched), that data is accurate and available in real-time.

Location Eligibility

• Hybrid – Ability to commute to our Columbia, MD/Northern VA office.
• Hybrid – Ability to commute to our Boston, MA office.
• Remote – Currently reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.

Your Opportunity

• Build the Future of Exposure Management: Build the backend that powers Tenable’s flagship Exposure Management (EM) platform.
• Solve Complex Data Problems: Design logic that collapses millions of incoming findings into a single, accurate state record.
• Architect for Scale: Transition our systems to a new architecture designed to be faster, cheaper, and more reliable. Your work will unblock integrations across the entire company.
• Own Your Stack (DevOps): Use Terraform and Datadog to deploy, monitor, and ensure the health of your services in production.

What You’ll Need

• 4+ years of Backend Engineering experience with a focus on high-volume data processing or distributed systems.
• Strong JVM Proficiency: Deep experience with Java, Kotlin.
• Stream Processing Architecture: Proven experience with Kafka (ideally), AWS Kinesis, etc. Understand topics, partitions, and asynchronous data processing.
• Distributed Systems Knowledge: Understand microservices, eventual consistency, and data resiliency.
• Stateful Processing Logic: Experience calculating “state” from a history of events; able to collapse raw data into current status.
• DevOps Mindset: Hands‐on experience with Terraform and observability tools like Datadog.
• Database Experience: Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL stores (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or similar).

And Ideally

• Experience with Event Sourcing or CQRS patterns.
• Security background (plus), but data pipeline experience is primary.

This is the base pay range for this position. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, location and experience, and may fall outside of the range shown. Employees are also eligible for variable compensation in addition to base pay (bonus for non-sales roles), depending on company and individual performance. Tenable also offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefits which include: medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance; 401(k) retirement savings with company match; an employee stock purchase plan; an employee referral program; flexible spending accounts; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); education assistance; parental leave; paid time off (PTO); company-paid holidays; health and wellness events; and community programs.

US Pay Range: $137,500—$183,500 USD

Equal Employment Opportunity

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 Recruiting@Tenable.com for further assistance.