Director of Engineering

2 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Tenable Full time
About Tenable

Tenable is the Exposure Management company, trusted by 44,000 organizations worldwide to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global team supports 65% of the Fortune 500, 45% of the Global 2000, and large government agencies.

What Makes Tenable a Great Place to Work?

Our people make Tenable a great place to work. We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers, creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence. When you're part of our team, you can expect to partner with talented and passionate individuals, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters.

Your Role

We're seeking a Director of Engineering to join our Vulnerability Management product development team. As a Director of Engineering at Tenable, you'll play a key role in delivering highly reliable, scalable, and maintainable SaaS products in cloud ecosystems. You'll drive end-to-end product development, collaborating with Product Managers, Architects, and engineering teams to ensure continued success of product delivery, growth, and innovation.

Your Opportunity
  • Lead a team of experienced engineers with strong communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
  • Manage SaaS commercial products in large distributed environments.
  • Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent, and lead the team to operate at maximum potential.
  • Plan and grow a global engineering organization, measuring maturity and performance data-driven.
  • Collaborate with Product Management to define product strategy, combining industry experience with product and customer knowledge.
What You'll Need
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years of demonstrated success as a Director of Engineering.
  • Prior experience leading teams for enterprise commercial SaaS products.
  • Prior experience 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 (e.g., Java) and database technologies (e.g., SQL, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, or PostgreSQL).
  • Experience leading teams in agile/scrum processes 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.


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