The Basics: 

The mission of the Content Author is to create, maintain, develop, curate, and support the Tanium solutions as defined by our Product teams at Tanium. This individual is an expert in the Tanium platform, one or many of the endpoint operating systems supported by the Tanium platform, and the relevant development languages used by Tanium in its content. 

What you'll do:  

At the highest level the goals of the Content Author are to: 

• Maintain and Enhance the Core Content solutions.  
• Assist in VERT content creation and maintenance. 
• Assist product in content needs for products.  
• Help lower the barrier to entry for customers, partners, and employees for creating new and potentially standardized content.  
• Help in establishing and maintaining standards for content at Tanium.  

While not developing products or services, this role is critical to keeping the Tanium platforms chief user function in healthy working order by maintaining the sensors, and packages our customers depend on to get the correct answers they seek in real time, while creating paths that make their own in-house solutioning easier.  

To maintain content as defined by Product and Engineering. Examples of “content” as defined today:   

• Core Content projects
• Core Content, Default Content, Core Python, Enhanced Tags, AD Query, Forefront, MSSQL, SCCM, SSL/TLS Server Audit, EICAR, and Client hardening
• Vert and Emerging Issues sensors and packages 

We’re looking for someone with:  
 

Education  

• BA/BS degree from a leading undergraduate institution or comparable experience 

Experience  

• 10+ years' experience in technical positions  
• 10+ years' experience in endpoint operations or security  
• Demonstrated patience and ability to work well with a highly diverse group of individuals  
• Known reputation for being respected and respectful with regards to interactions with customers and Engineering/product teams at all levels  
• Data-driven and operationally minded  
• Rapid resource allocation/cross-leveling abilities  
• Proven ability to translate content needs into working solutions  
• Exceptional skills developing in one or many of the following languages used in content at Tanium: Bash, PowerShell, C# and .Net, VBScript, Python  
• Demonstrates initiative, motivation, dependability, and positive attitude  
• Naturally team-oriented with a mission first attitude  
• Willingness to always go above and beyond for their customers 

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 $150,000 to $260,000. 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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