This work is hybrid from a Durham office.

The Basics

As a Tanium Software Engineer focused on Cloud technologies, you will build and maintain best-of-breed products and infrastructure as part of a nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new product ideas are identified, our software engineers design, develop, test, and deploy the products and supporting services from the ground up, while iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input. 

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain Tanium's cloud products and services as part of an agile development team 
• Implement intuitive front ends for customer-facing and internal applications 
• Build backend microservices with well-defined API’s 
• Work with persistent data stores, caches, messages buses, and other server-side technology 
• Create automated unit tests, API tests, integration tests and ensure quality delivery 
• Author technical documents and artifacts for developed software 

We’re looking for someone with

• Education
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • CS Degree preferred
• Experience
  • 3+ years industry experience, 5+ preferred
  •  Experience building high-impact, high-performance, secure, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
  • Significant knowledge of at least one of the following: Golang or JavaScript/TypeScript (preferred), Node.js, Java, or Rust
  • Experience with React or similar front-end technologies
  • Experience with HTTP API design and development including REST and/or GraphQL
  • Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
  • Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with containers and microservices is a plus
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) a plus
  • Experience with container orchestration solutions (Kubernetes, Nomad, Mesos) a plus
  • Demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development, long-term code maintainability and supportability
  • Believes in the power of and the need for writing automated tests as part of development
  • Comfortable debugging yours and others’ code in production environments
  • Has knowledge of a variety of modern backend software frameworks and the versatility to learn new tools and languages 

About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its converged endpoint management (XEM) platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things. 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $95,000 to $290,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

 

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