Staff Software Engineer
Tenable, Inc.
$188,000–$282,000
Jul 15, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building and maintaining cloud-native search solutions, distributed systems, and microservices for a cybersecurity platform serving enterprise customers. The work spans architecture, feature development, performance optimization, and production support, with an expectation of providing technical guidance to less experienced engineers. Suits an experienced engineer with a background in scalable cloud infrastructure.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 336,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 201,500–503,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting is unusually sparse on named technologies — no specific languages, frameworks, databases, or cloud platforms are called out anywhere in the JD. The only concrete technical requirements are cloud-based application development, distributed systems, and microservices architecture, all stated in the responsibilities/requirements narrative.
The title is 'Staff Software Engineer', but the actual requirements (8+ years, no cross-team or org-wide scope described, standard senior IC duties) support a Senior band. The Staff title appears to be a level claim rather than a reflection of genuine Staff-level organizational scope.
The degree requirement is a hard gate as written: 'Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or other directly related field of study; Plus 8 years…' — no 'or equivalent experience' substitution is offered.
The '#LI-DNI' tag indicates this posting is intentionally excluded from LinkedIn job aggregation, which may explain the minimal detail.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud-based application development.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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