Senior Software Engineer

The Basics

As a Senior Software Engineer at Tanium, you will be part of our Data Access and Integrations team where you would be part of a project that will be focused on creating and maintaining powerful tools for data pipeline and building up an API service that enables secure and efficient access to Tanium data that will impact all of the services we have.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain Tanium’s products alongside an agile development team
• Design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input
• Work on small teams that tackle big challenges in common components like a common data service tasked with unifying and consolidating endpoint data across the entire ecosystem, handling time series data that drive dash boarding and reporting, and exposing data externally through GraphQL enabling partners (like Salesforce) to easily integrate
• Delivering higher level services enabled by our core services that directly enable our products and focus on everything from security to operations to auditing

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• CS Degree preferred

Experience

• 5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred
• Knowledge of at least one of Golang and Node.js (preferred) or Python, Ruby, Rust, Java
• Experience with Typescript with a React framework
• Experience building services on top of Kubernetes
• Experience building GraphQL APIs
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm Charts, CloudFormation)
• Experience designing and building high-impact, high-performance, scalable, observable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
• Experience with HTTP API design and development
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and Jenkins

Other

• Demonstrates sound 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
• Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to learn new tools

About Tanium 

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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. 

Taking care of our team members 

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.   

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