Principal Software Engineer, UI
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Your Role:

As a Principal UI Engineer at Tenable, you play a key role in the delivery of highly reliable, scalable, and maintainable JavaScript applications. You will drive projects end-to-end, collaborating on product definitions with Product Managers, architecting and implementing technical solutions with talented teams, and ensuring continued success even after deployment. You will lead and participate in design reviews, architecture discussions and other technical leader activities. You're comfortable working independently as well as supporting other team members. You're pragmatic, tenacious, and comfortable with ambiguity. You'll be able to balance technical leadership and acumen with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. You'll strive for simplicity, while bringing technical insights into how to refine and improve the system, ultimately ensuring performance, stability, and an exceptional end user experience.

Your Opportunity:

* Be a lead voice in a fast growing team that is working on an innovative product and is utilizing cutting edge front end technologies.


* Work with other Principal Engineers and Team Leads to help develop and implement UI engineering standard and architecture.


* Be at the forefront of technological initiatives by evaluating and working with management to recommend solutions to the team.


* Make a difference by evangelizing the UI engineering team's principles, not just internally but cross functionally.


* Ability to contribute to the overall framework to continually improve our quality and efficiencies.


* Collaborate with an amazing group of cross functional team members including product management, design and other engineers in your Agile team.



What you'll need:

* 5+ years of relevant work experience


* 3+ years working on modern Javascript frameworks, preferably with React/Redux.


* Experience with visualization tools (d3, three.js, raphael.js) and node.js is preferred, but not required.


* Solid understanding of basic Javascript and CSS concepts and techniques, experience with CSS pre-processing frameworks (such as Sass, Less, or Stylus).


* Successfully deployed code/features, multiple times, while working in an Agile environment.


* Ability to communicate and collaborate with other engineers and cross functional team members.


* Willingness to take ownership of project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.


* Passion for keeping up to date on current trends related to front end architectures, performance techniques, accessibility, localization, security and web design/user experience.



We're committed to promoting Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) at Tenable - through all equal employment opportunity laws and regulations at the international, federal, state and local levels.