Senior Software Engineer, DevOps
Design and manage systems and tools to enable rapid and reliable code delivery as a Senior Software Engineer in DevOps at Tanium.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 days ago
Last verified on the company career page 3 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Develop the next generation pipeline for Tanium products
- Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Deploy and maintain applications on cloud-native architecture
- Design systems to monitor critical infrastructure
- Plan and support major improvements to infrastructure
Must have
- 5+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or SRE role
- 5+ years managing cloud-based services with AWS, GCP or Azure
- 3+ years with Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi or Terraform
- 3+ years of Docker/Kubernetes experience in production
- 3+ years writing software that utilizes 3rd party APIs
Nice to have
- Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or another config management suite
- Experience with virtualization technologies
- Experience managing metrics gathering and reporting systems
- Believes in the power of test and process automation
- Skilled debugger in production environments
Practical constraints
- Work in the office a minimum of three days per week
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Software Engineer, DevOps at Tanium, the individual will focus on designing and managing systems that enhance the engineering team's ability to deliver software efficiently and securely. Key skills include extensive experience with cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with a strong background in software development and DevOps practices, particularly those who thrive in collaborative environments. Tanium emphasizes a culture of diversity and community engagement, reflecting its commitment to innovation and teamwork.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 2 days ago — first seen on Joblaze October 15, 2026. Last confirmed on Tanium's careers page October 17, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Tanium: Durham, NC, United States.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
- Starts above 70% of 92 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $165,000 across 42 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
- Kubernetes appears in 69.5% of 197 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States; VirtualBox appears in 0.5% of 197 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, DevOps role remote?
- It's hybrid — Tanium expects some on-site time in Durham, NC, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Tanium lists $180,000–$270,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, DevOps role.
- Where is the role based?
- Tanium is hiring for this position in Durham, NC, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Ansible, Azure, Chef, Docker, GCP.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Tanium targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, DevOps role at Tanium.
From the original posting
The Basics
As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, you will be designing and managing systems, tools, and infrastructure to enable the entire engineering org to deliver code to our customers consistently, rapidly, safely, and reliably.
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; or Reston, VA.
What you’ll do
- Work alongside a cross-functional engineering team to develop the next generation pipeline to build, release, and test Tanium products and services
- Support existing efforts to deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
- Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
- Work with product security teams to build tools to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities
- Design systems that effectively monitor critical infrastructure, plan for future needs, and rapidly respond to incidents
- Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
- Plan, execute, and support scheduled major improvements to our infrastructure
We’re looking for someone with
- Education
- Bachelor's or equivalent experience.
- CS Degree preferred.
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or SRE role
- 5+ years of experience managing cloud-based services with AWS, GCP or Azure (AWS preferred)
- 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi or Terraform (Pulumi preferred)
- 3+ years of Docker/Kubernetes experience in production environment
- Deep understanding of networking, with the ability to build and maintain complex networks
- 3+ years of experience writing software that utilizes 3rd party APIs (go preferred)
- Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or another config management suite, know where it's broken, and are open to trying new alternatives
- Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools (Git, GitHub Actions, JIRA)
- Experience with virtualization technologies (VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, vCenter)
- Experience with hybrid cloud environments
- Experience managing metrics gathering and reporting systems (Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB)
- Experience with Linux environments
- Believes in the power of test and process automation
- Deliberate and demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development and long-term code maintainability and supportability
- Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
- Relentless desire to automate and build software tools
- Have a customer-centric work approach to drive positive experiences for Tanium customers
- Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a remote work setting
- Motivated self-starter
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 $180,000 to $270,000 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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