Software/Site Reliability Engineer - FedRAMP

Embedded Shishya; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 131,500 - 175,500; Full time

Job summary

Tenable’s cloud-based vulnerability management platform is expanding. You will help scale and self-manage cloud products for private and US Government customers, ensuring reliability and high availability.

Join a team that responds to complex incidents, builds automation, and collaborates across engineering, security, and operations. Strong software engineering foundation required; remote-friendly in the US.

Qualifications

• 2+ years deploying public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with orchestration tooling such as Kubernetes.
• Proficient in bash and higher-level scripting languages like Python or Node.js.
• Experience with Agile software development and cross-team collaboration.
• Experience with distributed, microservice-oriented applications at scale.

Responsibilities

• Take code and functionality of cloud products and ensure reliability and availability.
• Respond to support escalations and troubleshoot complex problems within SLAs.
• Develop software, tools and scripts to automate deployment, management and monitoring of production systems.
• Collaborate with peers on complex projects and with cloud engineers on new technologies.
• Create documentation for operational procedures and contribute to standardization efforts.

Skills

Data structures

Algorithms

Concurrency

System design

Python

Go

Java/Kotlin

Node.js

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

SRE collaboration

AI-augmented development

bash scripting

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field

Tools

OpenSearch

Kafka

Elasticsearch

DynamoDB

RDS Aurora PostgreSQL

Helm

Gradle

Datadog

Splunk

OTEL

Job description

About Tenable

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 will 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 are 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! Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without sponsorship. We are unable to provide sponsorship for work visas of any kind at the time of hire, or at any point during employment. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, J-1, etc.

Your Role

Have you heard of Tenable? Our cloud-based vulnerability management platform built for today’s dynamic IT assets, like cloud, containers and web apps? Well, that’s what you will be working on in this role. You will need to continue to quickly build out the platform, scale it automatically, and make it more self-managing for our private and US Government cloud customers!

Your Opportunity

• Responsible for taking the code and functionality of Tenable cloud products and ensuring they’re reliable and highly available in cloud environments
• Responsible for responding to support escalations which involve troubleshooting complex technical problems and resolving data/configuration issues within defined service level objectives
• Responsible for developing software, tools, and scripts to automate deployment, management, and monitoring of production systems in all environments
• Collaborate with peers on complex projects
• Collaboration with cloud engineers in understanding new cloud technologies, assessing impact to security services operations, and proposing solutions to existing business problems
• Collaboration in the software development lifecycle to develop detailed enhancement/bug definitions, write functional requirements, translate the requirements into solution designs, and navigate the functional requirements through to Production deployments
• Proactively look for ways to create efficiencies within operations as it pertains to the tools and technology used by Tenable to support their customer base
• Manage, participate in, or directly work on any additional projects, assignments, or initiatives assigned by management
• Create/maintain documentation for operational procedures
• Contribute to standardization efforts across disciplines and services in conjunction with embedded SREs throughout the organization
• Document and perform system upgrades, application updates, and define monitoring requirements based on customer or organization needs
• Participate in an on-call rotation and support 24x7 availability of production application systems
• Remediate infrastructure and/or container security vulnerabilities

What You'll Need

• U.S citizen required 2+ years of related SRE experience.
• Apply core software engineering fundamentals (e.g., data structures, algorithms, concurrency, system design) to solve complex reliability and scalability challenges at a distributed level.
• Must meet one of the following criteria: Currently reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA and able to work remotely.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC technologies.
• A curiosity driven mindset toward emerging engineering technologies, with a proven ability to integrate AI-augmented development into daily SRE workflows from scripting, debugging, and monitoring to incident retrospectives.
• Actively leverage AI assistants and automation frameworks to synthesize complex technical data, streamline documentation, and automate repetitive tasks, consistently moving faster to solve reliability challenges and elevate the quality of our engineering output.
• 2+ years deploying public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) preferred including administering managed AWS services (EKS, OpenSearch, MSK, Batch, etc.)
• Experience with orchestration tooling such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with Docker or similar container solution.
• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Information Technology Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with the Agile software development methodology and collaboration with internal teams to deliver software and configuration artifacts.
• Experience in bash scripting in addition to experience in higher-level scripting languages like Python or Node.js.
• Experience contributing to projects through to completion as part of a team.
• Experience deploying and managing distributed, microservice oriented applications at scale.
• Must have high degree of personal integrity and ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
• Must have a strong drive, be self-motivated, logical, and have a keen attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills (written, verbal, & virtual) with ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

And Ideally

• Experience with platform development in compliance with FedRAMP requirements and related government standards, policies, regulations, etc.
• Experience deploying distributed, microservice oriented applications.
• Experience with distributed monitoring tools such as: Datadog, Splunk, OTEL, etc.
• Experience with datastore technologies: Kafka, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Helm.
• Experience with Go, Java/Kotlin, and/or Groovy.
• Experience with Java build tools including Gradle.
• 1+ years of operational experience with industry-leading "big data" services technologies.

Compensation & Benefits

US Pay Range $131,500 – $175,500 USD 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 (commission for sales roles, 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. #LI-Remote #LI-LP1

Equal Employment Opportunity

Tenable is 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 [e-mail] for further assistance.