Senior Software Engineer - Platform Development

The Basics (Hybrid Role - Part-time in office)

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer focused on platform development, you will build and maintain best-of-breed services that power products 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.

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the Emeryville, CA office three days per week.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintaining Tanium's servers and client alongside a highly agile development team


• Focus on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning


• Design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input

We’re looking for someone with

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience


• CS Degree or related technical field preferred

Experience

• 7+ years industry experience, 10+ preferred


• Advanced knowledge of C++


• Experience designing and building high-performance, secure, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable backend services and APIs


• Experience with public cloud technologies (e.g. AWS or Azure)


• Experience with cryptographic primitives, TLS, PKI


• Experience with API design and development


• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git, GHA and Jenkins

Other

• Demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development, and long-term code maintainability and supportability


• Communicates effectively, both technically and non-technically, as well as in written and oral forms


• Believes in the power of and the need for writing automated tests as part of development


• Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments


• Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to learn new tools


• Detail-oriented and passionate for creating an awesome user experience

About Tanium

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its 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 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.

Taking care of our team members

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 $200,000-$220,000. 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.

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