Senior Software Engineer - Event Sourcing & Stream Processing

About This Role

Join the VM Platform team to design and maintain high-throughput, event-driven pipelines, processing massive volumes of assets and vulnerability data for the Tenable One architecture. This role involves solving complex Big Data problems and ensuring real-time accuracy for Tenable's Exposure Management platform.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable microservices for the VM Platform team
• Maintain high-throughput, event-driven pipelines responsible for processing assets and vulnerabilities
• Design systems that handle massive scale for real-time data accuracy
• Develop the future backend that powers Tenable’s flagship Exposure Management (EM) platform
• Design logic to collapse millions of incoming findings into a single, accurate state record
• Transition systems to a new architecture for improved speed, cost-effectiveness, and reliability
• Deploy, monitor, and ensure health of services in production using Terraform and Datadog

Requirements

• 4+ years backend engineering experience with high-volume data processing or distributed systems
• Deep experience with Java or Kotlin, understanding JVM memory management and performance
• Proven experience with Kafka (ideally), AWS Kinesis, or similar stream processing architectures
• Understanding of distributed systems challenges (microservices, eventual consistency, data resiliency)
• Experience calculating 'state' from a history of events, collapsing raw data to a current status
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• Proficiency with observability tools like Datadog to monitor metrics and graphs
• Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL data stores (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or similar)

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Backend Engineering experience with a focus on high-volume data processing or distributed systems

Nice to Have

• Experience with Event Sourcing or CQRS patterns
• Security background

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits