Desired Skills and Experience

  • Develop and enhance Tenable’s Nessus plugins
  • Promote great software design and quality
  • Manage, participate in, or directly work on any additional projects, assignments, or initiatives as assigned
  • Drive innovation by coming up with new ideas for our products and processes
  • Work with Tenable’s Support group to identify and troubleshoot issues related to existing plugins and audit files
  • Demonstrated experience with regular expressions, shell scripting, and at least one programming language, preferably python
  • Experience with git revision control system a must
  • Unit and end to end testing experience required
  • In depth knowledge of a variety of operating systems (e.g., Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Cisco IOS) as well as enterprise applications
  • Outstanding written and oral communication skills
  • B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Familiarity with Tenable’s product line 
  • 3-4 years of programming experience
  • Experience in Enterprise Compliance/Configuration & Vulnerability Management products 
  • Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Nessus Attack Scripting Language (NASL)