Is the Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research role remote?

Yes — Tanium lists this as a fully remote position.

What's the salary range?

Tanium lists $191,000–$293,000 for this role.

How much experience is required?

5–7 years of relevant experience for this Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, C++, Dynamic Analysis, Fuzzing, Go, JavaScript.

What seniority level is this role?

Tanium targets senior candidates for this position.

Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research at Tanium

Joblaze summary

In the role of Senior Security Engineer focused on Vulnerability Research, the individual will actively identify and analyze potential vulnerabilities in Tanium's software, ensuring timely remediation to protect customer networks. Key skills include a strong background in application security, hands-on vulnerability research, and proficiency in programming languages such as Go, C++, or Python. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over five years of experience in security engineering, particularly those familiar with AI applications in vulnerability assessment. Tanium's commitment to innovation and collaboration within its R&D Security team underscores the importance of this

Joblaze insights

Listed 3 days ago — first seen on Joblaze October 9, 2026. Last confirmed on Tanium's careers page October 11, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
Starts above 69% of 100 comparable senior security roles in United States that list Python we track (median $172,450 across 42 companies). See Python salary trends
Python appears in 41.3% of 320 comparable senior security roles in United States; Fuzzing appears in 0.3% of 320 comparable senior security roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research role remote?: Yes — Tanium lists this as a fully remote position.
What's the salary range?: Tanium lists $191,000–$293,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: 5–7 years of relevant experience for this Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, C++, Dynamic Analysis, Fuzzing, Go, JavaScript.
What seniority level is this role?: Tanium targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research role at Tanium.

From the original posting

The Basics

Tanium is looking for a security engineer to join the Vulnerability Research team within the R&D Security organization, which protects the software and cloud services our customers depend on.

Tanium's customers secure some of the most consequential networks in the world and they extend us a great deal of trust. The Vulnerability Research team is responsible for hunting for previously-unknown vulnerabilities in our software and driving them to remediation before attackers can exploit them.

In this role, you will continuously raise the bar for attackers, making vulnerabilities in Tanium software harder and more expensive to find. Tanium is leveraging frontier models and developing agentic security workflows to scale and accelerate the find-and-fix loop. You will apply your deep security expertise to decide what to hunt for and streamline the vulnerability discovery, triage, and remediation processes.

What you’ll do

Decide which attack surfaces and bug classes to go after and build the capability needed to discover new vulnerabilities
Triage newly discovered vulnerabilities quickly and accurately, ranking them by exploitability and actual impact
Make remediation easy for engineering by providing high-quality patch guidance and working pull requests in addition to the vulnerability reports
Maintain a threat model of Tanium software and services and use it to direct future vulnerability research projects
Drive vulnerability research with frontier AI capabilities by evaluating what is possible using in-house and third-party tooling and building agentic workflows around what works
Build and maintain reliable tooling to support vulnerability research efforts including AI skills, fuzzing harnesses and static and dynamic analyzers
Shorten the time from detection to remediation by driving down false positive rate and improving finding quality
Perform source code review and targeted security assessment of high-risk components

We’re looking for someone with

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience

Experience

5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred
Strong understanding of web and native application security
Experience with hands-on vulnerability research via source code review, manual application penetration testing, or fuzzing
Expertise in determining the severity and exploitability of a vulnerability and its impact to the business
Able to read and write code in at least one of: Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Python
Experience with the process of developing, building, and shipping secure code

Nice to have:

Experience applying frontier models to vulnerability research, and an informed view of where AI accelerates outcomes and where it manufactures noise
Experience with reachability or exploitability analysis to separate real findings from theoretical ones at scale
Experience with native code security (C/C++) in privileged or agent-based software
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure preferred)
Published vulnerability research, credited CVEs, bounty findings, open-source security tooling, or conference talks
Strong understanding of applied cryptography, including encryption, hashing, and secure key management

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $191,000 to $293,000. 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.

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

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