Senior PHP Software Engineer – Integrations Team Lead

Nucleus Security

full-time

Posted on: 9/9/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

Develop and maintain integrations for ingesting vulnerability and asset data from major security platforms (e.g., Tenable.io, Wiz, Qualys, Rapid7, and more)
Work directly with external REST APIs to extract, normalize, and transform data into platform-ready formats
Lead the architecture and design of the new connectors and contribute to improving our internal connector framework
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, QA, support, and platform engineering to ensure integrations are stable, scalable, and supportable
Build tooling and automation to support connector testing, validation, and CI/CD deployment
Maintain best practices for versioning, release cadence, and backwards compatibility
Support QA and customer support teams in diagnosing and resolving connector-related issues
Take ownership of reliability and observability in connector infrastructure (logging, metrics, error handling, etc.)

5+ years of professional software engineering experience
2+ years of technical leadership experience
Strong experience with PHP including modern PHP practices, Composer, PSR standards
Deep understanding of working with REST APIs—authentication, pagination, rate-limiting, data normalization
Experience writing testable code, creating unit/integration tests, and mocking external APIs to validate workflows in a testing environment
Background in data transformation or ETL-style workflows
Proven ability to lead technical efforts or projects from design through release
Experience with version control systems (preferably Git) and CI/CD pipelines
Comfortable working in Linux-based environments
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, especially when dealing with external systems and APIs
US Citizenship required
Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cyber security, computer engineering or similar
Preferred: Experience with the Zend Framework ecosystem, especially Laminas Framework
Preferred: Experience working with security tools such as Tenable, Wiz, Qualys, or Rapid7
Preferred: Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker
Preferred: Experience working with relational databases (SingleStore/MEMSQL a bonus)
Preferred: Experience with ExtJS or React
Preferred: Experience with Python
Preferred: Agile/Scrum experience
Preferred: Experience maintaining applications on Linux platforms in cloud environments