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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Tenable - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $131,500.0 - $175,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Data Structures, Data Stores, Software Debugging, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Gradle, Groovy, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Technical Data Management Systems, Datadog, Scripting, Google Cloud, Concurrency, Kotlin, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Build Tools, Terraform, Splunk, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** August 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/34199c5e-6490-491a-814c-91b4087b849a ## About the Role Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without sponsorship. We are unable to provide sponsorship for work visas of any kind at the time of hire, or at any point during employment. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, J-1, etc., * U.S citizen required * 2+ years of related SRE experience * Apply core software engineering fundamentals* (e.g., data structures, algorithms, concurrency, system design) to solve complex reliability and scalability challenges at a distributed level * To be considered for this role, you must meet one of the following criteria: Currently reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA and able to work remotely * Experience with Terraform or similar IaC technologies * A curiosity driven mindset toward emerging engineering technologies, with a proven ability to integrate AI-augmented development into daily SRE workflows from scripting, debugging, and monitoring to incident retrospectives. * Actively leverage AI assistants and automation frameworks to synthesize complex technical data, streamline documentation, and automate repetitive tasks, consistently moving faster to solve reliability challenges and elevate the quality of our engineering output * 2+ years deploying public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) preferred including administering managed AWS services (EKS, OpenSearch, MSK, Batch, etc.) * Experience with orchestration tooling such as Kubernetes * Experience with Docker or similar container solution * Bachelor's Degree or Master's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Information Technology Engineering or equivalent work experience * Experience with the Agile software development methodology and collaboration with internal teams to deliver software and configuration artifacts * Experience in bash scripting in addition to experience in higher-level scripting languages like Python or Node.js * Experience contributing to projects through to completion as part of a team * Experience deploying and managing distributed, microservice oriented applications at scale * Be an enthusiastic learner, user, and advocate of our technologies * Has desire to win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open and willing to try new ideas * Strong interpersonal and communications skills (written, verbal, & virtual) with ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment * Must have high degree of personal integrity and ability to maintain strict confidentiality * Must have a strong drive, be self-motivated, logical, and have a keen attention to detail And Ideally: * Experience with platform development in compliance with FedRAMP requirements and related government standards, policies, regulations, etc. * Experience deploying distributed, microservice oriented applications * Experience with distributed monitoring tools such as: Datadog, Splunk, OTEL, etc. * Experience with datastore technologies: Kafka, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL * Experience with Helm * Experience with Go, Java/Kotlin, and/or Groovy * Experience with Java build tools including Gradle * 1+ years of operational experience with industry-leading "big data" services technologies #LI-Remote #LI-LP1 ## Description * Responsible for taking the code and functionality of Tenable cloud products and ensuring they're reliable and highly available in cloud environments * Responsible for responding to support escalations which involve troubleshooting complex technical problems and resolving data/configuration issues within defined service level objectives * Responsible for developing software, tools, and scripts to automate deployment, management, and monitoring of production systems in all environments * Collaborate with peers on complex projects * Collaboration with cloud engineers in understanding new cloud technologies, assessing impact to security services operations, and proposing solutions to existing business problems * Collaboration in the software development lifecycle to develop detailed enhancement/bug definitions, write functional requirements, translate the requirements into solution designs, and navigate the functional requirements through to Production deployments * Proactively look for ways to create efficiencies within operations as it pertains to the tools and technology used by Tenable to support their customer base * Manage, participate in, or directly work on any additional projects, assignments, or initiatives assigned by management * Create/maintain documentation for operational procedures * Contribute to standardization efforts across disciplines and services in conjunction with embedded SREs throughout the organization * Document and perform system upgrades, application updates, and define monitoring requirements based on customer or organization needs * Participate in an on-call rotation and support 24x7 availability of production application systems * Remediate infrastructure and/or container security vulnerabilities ## Related Videos - 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