Is the Senior Software Engineer role remote?

It's hybrid — Tanium expects some on-site time in Bellevue, WA, United States.

What's the salary range?

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

How much experience is required?

7–10 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer role.

Where is the role based?

Tanium is hiring for this position in Bellevue, WA, United States.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, C++, Git, GitHub Actions, HTTP API.

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 role at Tanium.

Senior Software Engineer at Tanium

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 office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; or Emeryville, CA

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 HTTP API design and development
Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git, GHA and Jenkins
Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools and technologies into software development, including AI-assisted coding and prompt engineering.

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 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.