Tenable
Senior Software Engineer in Test
Tenable, Boston, Massachusetts, us, 02298
Description
Who is Tenable?Tenable is the Exposure Management company. 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 60 percent of the Fortune 500, 40 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 theyll 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 youre 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!Your Role:Tenable is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test (SET) to join Tenables Engineering organization to support our mission of efficient delivery of high quality solutions to our customers' security problems. Focused on enabling customers to detect and respond effectively to new and emerging security threats across their IT landscape, the Tenable engineering organization is working at the cutting edge in this critical security space. In this role, you will be responsible for the testing strategy and execution for a product scrum team, charged with helping your engineering team design and implement the testing tools and infrastructure necessary to ensure that our systems meet our customers expectations towards reliability, scalability and performance. Youll bring in expertise on testing strategy and execution and engage in cross-functional collaboration with other product and testing teams, to ensure consistent processes and tooling across engineering to deliver software of the highest quality.Your Opportunity:Get in on the ground floor: in this role, you'll have a broad scope with an opportunity to take on new responsibilities and grow as an engineer. As a senior member of the organization it will be on you to help drive the testing strategy for your team, and to set high standards across our teamsInnovate: As an organization, we run an Innovation Sprint at the start of every quarter where engineers can work on their own feature ideas, or try out new technologies.. You can demo your work in front of the rest of the company and pair up with people from other teamsLearn new things: We provide a training budget for you to attend conferences or workshopsRaise the bar: We are always looking for ways to improve ourselves, our tech stack, and our products features. Bring your ideas and experiences to the table and help make a lasting impactCollaborate: Work closely with Product Managers, other engineers, designers, and stakeholders to continuously iterate on our products and drive consensus. You will have the opportunity to support and mentor your peers inside and outside your teamWork at scale: You will have the ability to magnify your work by automating tests and ensuring quality of our solutions at all levels of the "test pyramid"Show impact: You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on outcomes for our customers to ensure that they maintain the best experience when using our cloud platformWhat You'll Need:5+ years software testing experience with a focus on functional test definition and test planning, test automation at all levels of the testing pyramid, and scalability and load testing and performance tooling in large scale, distributed systemsExperience in Python, Selenium and Pytest. Willingness to learn new languages as neededExcellent analytical skills, with experience summarizing test results into meaningful reports to effectively communicate test coverage and code quality, as well as scalability, capacity and performance issuesExperience monitoring for defects and issues post-production, creating observability and logging strategies, and translating findings from production environments into actionable tests in development and staging environmentsSolid experience with test harnesses and frameworks, such as pytest, Jest, Jasmine, Spock, Cucumber, etc. and with test automation and testing applications at the API layer, specifically RESTful APIsExperience in different testing methodologies, such as: behavior-driven testing, synthetic testing, consumer-driven contract testing, unit testing, and integration testingFor roles on our Tenable WAS team, experience with testing in a microservices cloud-based architecture is a mustExperience in test management tools such as X-rayExperience in System/AWS administration, TCP/IP networking, including protocol capture and analysis, system resource monitoring including OS-native tools and popular resource monitoring and log analysis stacks (ELK, TIG stack, Datadog, Splunk) is a plusExperience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform), container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker), event store/messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) is a strong plusAccountability for the behavior of your teams software in productionExperience coaching and leading mid-level and junior staff in the design, implementation, and execution of highly technical development projectsExperience in working in an Agile team, and an enthusiasm for working collaboratively within and across product teamsThe ability to work independently and as a part of a team, and to lead/drive projects as necessaryThe desire to continuously learn and be exposed to new technologiesBS in Computer Science or directly related field, or equivalent work experienceIf youve reached this point, and youre still not sure if you should apply..Just do it! Were human and we dont fit a perfect mold. Having diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, thats a good thing! If youre coming from outside of the cyber industry - great! If youre looking to try something new - awesome! All we ask is you bring passion to all that you do, crave creativity and innovation, and embrace the hard work of gaining new skills and accepting big challenges.The base salary range for this position is $100,000.00 - $133,333.33 USD. 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.Were 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.
Who is Tenable?Tenable is the Exposure Management company. 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 60 percent of the Fortune 500, 40 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 theyll 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 youre 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!Your Role:Tenable is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test (SET) to join Tenables Engineering organization to support our mission of efficient delivery of high quality solutions to our customers' security problems. Focused on enabling customers to detect and respond effectively to new and emerging security threats across their IT landscape, the Tenable engineering organization is working at the cutting edge in this critical security space. In this role, you will be responsible for the testing strategy and execution for a product scrum team, charged with helping your engineering team design and implement the testing tools and infrastructure necessary to ensure that our systems meet our customers expectations towards reliability, scalability and performance. Youll bring in expertise on testing strategy and execution and engage in cross-functional collaboration with other product and testing teams, to ensure consistent processes and tooling across engineering to deliver software of the highest quality.Your Opportunity:Get in on the ground floor: in this role, you'll have a broad scope with an opportunity to take on new responsibilities and grow as an engineer. As a senior member of the organization it will be on you to help drive the testing strategy for your team, and to set high standards across our teamsInnovate: As an organization, we run an Innovation Sprint at the start of every quarter where engineers can work on their own feature ideas, or try out new technologies.. You can demo your work in front of the rest of the company and pair up with people from other teamsLearn new things: We provide a training budget for you to attend conferences or workshopsRaise the bar: We are always looking for ways to improve ourselves, our tech stack, and our products features. Bring your ideas and experiences to the table and help make a lasting impactCollaborate: Work closely with Product Managers, other engineers, designers, and stakeholders to continuously iterate on our products and drive consensus. You will have the opportunity to support and mentor your peers inside and outside your teamWork at scale: You will have the ability to magnify your work by automating tests and ensuring quality of our solutions at all levels of the "test pyramid"Show impact: You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on outcomes for our customers to ensure that they maintain the best experience when using our cloud platformWhat You'll Need:5+ years software testing experience with a focus on functional test definition and test planning, test automation at all levels of the testing pyramid, and scalability and load testing and performance tooling in large scale, distributed systemsExperience in Python, Selenium and Pytest. Willingness to learn new languages as neededExcellent analytical skills, with experience summarizing test results into meaningful reports to effectively communicate test coverage and code quality, as well as scalability, capacity and performance issuesExperience monitoring for defects and issues post-production, creating observability and logging strategies, and translating findings from production environments into actionable tests in development and staging environmentsSolid experience with test harnesses and frameworks, such as pytest, Jest, Jasmine, Spock, Cucumber, etc. and with test automation and testing applications at the API layer, specifically RESTful APIsExperience in different testing methodologies, such as: behavior-driven testing, synthetic testing, consumer-driven contract testing, unit testing, and integration testingFor roles on our Tenable WAS team, experience with testing in a microservices cloud-based architecture is a mustExperience in test management tools such as X-rayExperience in System/AWS administration, TCP/IP networking, including protocol capture and analysis, system resource monitoring including OS-native tools and popular resource monitoring and log analysis stacks (ELK, TIG stack, Datadog, Splunk) is a plusExperience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform), container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker), event store/messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) is a strong plusAccountability for the behavior of your teams software in productionExperience coaching and leading mid-level and junior staff in the design, implementation, and execution of highly technical development projectsExperience in working in an Agile team, and an enthusiasm for working collaboratively within and across product teamsThe ability to work independently and as a part of a team, and to lead/drive projects as necessaryThe desire to continuously learn and be exposed to new technologiesBS in Computer Science or directly related field, or equivalent work experienceIf youve reached this point, and youre still not sure if you should apply..Just do it! Were human and we dont fit a perfect mold. Having diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, thats a good thing! If youre coming from outside of the cyber industry - great! If youre looking to try something new - awesome! All we ask is you bring passion to all that you do, crave creativity and innovation, and embrace the hard work of gaining new skills and accepting big challenges.The base salary range for this position is $100,000.00 - $133,333.33 USD. 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.Were 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.