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San Francisco, CA Full Time Posted by: Tenable Posted: Tuesday, 27 January 2026
 
 
Overview

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? We value our people and strive to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions while fostering a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence. When you're part of ourteam, you can expect to work with talented people and have the support you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results and win together.

Your Role

Our cloud-based vulnerability management platform is built for today's dynamic IT assets, including cloud, containers, and web apps. In this role, you will help build out the platform, scale it automatically, and make it more self-managing for 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 private cloud environments
  • Respond to support escalations involving troubleshooting complex technical problems and resolving data/configuration issues within defined service level objectives
  • Develop software, tools, and scripts to automate deployment, management, and monitoring of production systems in all environments
  • Provide strategic and thought leadership among peers on complex projects
  • Collaborate with cloud engineers to understand new cloud technologies, assess impact to security services operations, and propose solutions to business problems
  • Collaborate in the software development lifecycle to develop detailed enhancement/bug definitions, write functional requirements, translate requirements into solution designs, and drive deployments to production
  • Identify opportunities to create efficiencies within operations related to tools and technology used to support customers
  • Manage, participate in, or contribute to additional projects or initiatives assigned by management
  • Create/maintain documentation for operational procedures
  • Drive standardization across disciplines and services with Embedded SREs
  • Document and perform system upgrades, application updates, and define monitoring requirements based on customer needs
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and support 24x7 availability of production application systems
  • Remediate infrastructure and container security vulnerabilities
What You'll Need
  • U.S citizen required
  • 6+ years of related SRE experience
  • Apply core software engineering fundamentals to solve complex reliability and scalability challenges at a distributed level
  • To be considered for this role, you must meet one of the following criteria.
  • 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
  • Experience with Terraform or similar IaC technologies
  • 2+ year experience with platform development in compliance with FedRAMP requirements and related government standards, policies, regulations, etc.
  • 3+ 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 or Master's degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience
  • Strong experience with Agile software development and collaboration with internal teams to deliver software and configuration artifacts
  • Strong background in bash Scripting plus experience with Python or Node.js
  • Experience leading projects through to completion with a team of peers
  • Experience deploying distributed, microservice-oriented applications at scale
  • Be an enthusiastic learner and advocate of our technologies
  • Desire to win as a team and willingness to try new ideas
  • Strong interpersonal and communications skills (written, verbal, virtual) in a collaborative environment
  • High degree of personal integrity and ability to maintain strict confidentiality
  • Strong drive, self-motivation, logical thinking, and attention to detail
And Ideally
  • Experience deploying distributed, microservice-oriented applications
  • Experience with distributed monitoring tools such as Datadog, Splunk, OTEL
  • 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
  • 2+ years of operational experience with industry-leading "big data" services technologies

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to provide sponsorship for work visas at the time of hire or during employment.

This is the base pay range for this position and may fall outside of the range shown. Tenable offers comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance; 401(k) with company match; employee stock purchase plan; employee referral program; flexible spending accounts; EAP; education assistance; parental leave; PTO; holidays; health and wellness programs; and community programs. US Pay Range: $163,000-$217,666.67 USD.

We're committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact (see below) for assistance.

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America
IT
Tenable
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