Senior Software Engineer

The Basics

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer, you will be tasked with building and maintaining best-of-breed products as part of a small and nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new products ideas are identified, our software engineers are responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying the products from the ground up, while continuously 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 office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA.

What you’ll do

• Building and maintaining Tanium's products alongside a highly agile development team
• Focusing on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning
• Designing, developing and testing 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 preferred
• Experience
  • Must be eligible for U.S. federal contract work; ability to obtain Canadian Reliability status (Protected B) is a plus, but not required
  • 5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred
  • Experience building large cloud-based data services
  • Knowledge of at least one of Golang (preferred), C++, or Rust
  • Experience with PostgreSQL
  • Experience with API design and development
  • Experience with Azure or AWS Database Services
  • Experience with cloud object storage, such as AWS S3 or Azure Blob Storage
  • Experience designing memory-efficient streaming and multipart data-transfer systems
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines
  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

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.