Staff Software Engineer - Event Sourcing/Stream Processing - Kafka

Tenable is the Exposure Management company that helps organizations reduce cyber risk. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their VM Platform team, focusing on building high-throughput, event-driven pipelines for processing large volumes of data related to assets and vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Build the Future of Exposure Management: We are currently developing the backend that powers Tenable’s flagship Exposure Management (EM) platform. You will be building the future that powers our EM platform
• Solve Complex Data Problems: Work on "team-named data processing" challenges. You will 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): We support our services in the wild. You won't just write code; you will use Terraform and Datadog to deploy, monitor, and ensure the health of your services in production

Requirements:

• 8+ years of Backend Engineering experience with a focus on high-volume data processing or distributed systems
• Strong JVM Proficiency: Deep experience with Java, Kotlin, is required. You should understand memory management and performance within the JVM ecosystem
• Stream Processing Architecture: Proven experience with Kafka (ideally), AWS Kinesis, et al. You understand topics, partitions, and how to process teams of data asynchronously
• Distributed Systems Knowledge: You understand the challenges of microservices, eventual consistency, and data resiliency
• Stateful Processing Logic: Experience calculating 'state' from a history of events. You understand how to take a stream of raw data and 'collapse' it into a current status
• DevOps Mindset: Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and observability tools like Datadog to monitor metrics and graphs
• Database Experience: Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL data stores (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or similar) to store and retrieve state data
• Experience with Event Sourcing or CQRS patterns
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to provide sponsorship for work visas of any kind at the time of hire, or at any point during employment
• While security background is a plus, we value Big Data/Data Pipeline experience first (if you can process data at scale, we can teach you the security domain)