Director Engineering - Web App Scanning - Tenable

Your Role:

Tenable is looking for a Director of Engineering to join the Tenable Vulnerability Management product development team. As a Director of Engineering at Tenable, you play a key role in the delivery of highly reliable, scalable, and maintainable SaaS products in the cloud ecosystems. You will drive the Tenable core product developments end-to-end while collaborating with Product Managers, Architects, and talented engineering teams to ensure continued success of product delivery, growth, and innovation.

Your Opportunity:

• Experienced engineering leader with strong communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate with Product Engineering, Platform, SRE, Product Management, Program Management, Marketing, Sales, and customers to achieve successful outcomes.
• Track record of managing SaaS commercial products in large distributed environments.
• Ability to attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent combined with leadership skills to help the team operate at their maximum potential.
• Experience planning and growing a global engineering organization with a track record of measuring maturity and performance data-driven.
• Experience collaborating with Product Management to define product strategy, combining industry experience with product and customer knowledge.
• Take ownership and pride in predictably delivering quality engineering releases.
• Promote and shape the culture of the engineering organization.

What You'll Need:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience overall and 3+ years of demonstrated success as Director of Engineering.
• Based in the greater Boston MA, San Jose/San Francisco CA, or Baltimore/Columbia MD areas.
• Prior experience leading teams for enterprise commercial SaaS products.
• Prior experience of leading product engineering for cybersecurity products is a plus.
• Strong leadership skills and a proven ability to motivate teams to produce high-quality software with velocity.
• Proven record of distributed system architecture at large.
• Experience leading engineering teams in containerized distributed systems environments across development, testing, CICD, and release management.
• Background in Object Oriented Programming (i.e., Java) and database technologies (i.e., SQL, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, or PostgreSQL).
• Experience leading teams in agile/scrum process in collaboration with product management, engineering, and quality.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to align cross-functional peers and engineers with the product strategy.
• Ability to attract and hire great software engineers and managers, build high-performance teams, lead and mentor the team, and make them successful.
• Experience growing people and engineering teams, and possess a can-do attitude.
• Provide technical strategy, direction, and standards to ensure they are adhered to. Excellent at influencing without authority.
• B.S or M.S. Degree in Computer Science or a related field.