Senior Software Engineer - Cloud

The Basics:

As a Tanium Senior 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.

*This is a hybrid position, which will require in person attendance 3x a week in Addison, Texas.

What you’ll do:

Build a Kubernetes platform from the ground up

Build and maintain Tanium's cloud infrastructure platform and services as part of agile development team

Create automated unit tests, API tests, integration tests and ensure quality delivery

Author technical documents and artifacts for developed software

Work with persistent data stores, caches, messages buses, and other server-side technology

We’re looking for someone with:

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

CS Degree or related technical field preferred

Experience

5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred

Experience building a Kubernetes-based platform

Experience designing and building high-impact, high-performance, secure, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable Kubernetes clusters

Strong working knowledge of at least one of: Golang, Terraform, or Scripting Languages

Experience with API design and development Experience with Azure or AWS

Experience with containers and microservices

Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Experience with container orchestration solutions (preferably Kubernetes)

Other

Demonstrates excellent 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

Experienced debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments and address the root causes of those fires for the future

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 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.

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 $180,000 to $230,000. 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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