Technical Director, Architecture

The role

You will serve as a hands-on generalist technical authority across the platform. You will own architectural direction for problems spanning product lines, write code, and mentor engineers.

What you will do

• Own architectural direction for problems spanning product lines
• Maintain a rolling 6-12 month technical roadmap
• Identify systemic risk and technical debt
• Write code, review code, and prototype
• Debug production problems where the diagnosis is architectural
• Build proof-of-concepts to test hypotheses
• Simplify the technology surface and streamline development patterns
• Establish standards for system design and documentation
• Partner with Technical Leads, Product Owners, SRE, and Data Platform teams
• Mentor engineers at every career stage

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Meaningful depth in architecture at scale
• Generalist range in services, data, infrastructure, or delivery
• Hands-on fluency to read unfamiliar codebases, write services or Terraform modules, and debug distributed failures
• Systems thinking regarding failure modes and blast radius
• Strong written communication
• Working fluency with AI-assisted development

Nice to have

• Depth in data processing and streaming (Kafka, Spark, Flink)
• Depth in cloud platform and Kubernetes
• Depth in CI/CD and release engineering
• Experience with cybersecurity or security product platforms
• Platform engineering patterns
• FinOps and cost optimization at scale
• Public technical writing or open-source contributions
• Experience moving an organization from legacy patterns to modern architecture

About the company

Tenable is the Exposure Management company. Over 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk.