The Basics:

The Senior Product Security Engineer will be responsible for helping engineering teams improve the security of the Tanium’s codebase via ongoing assessments and education throughout the entire software development lifecycle. The Senior Product Security Engineer may also take ownership of special projects such as security enhancements to the Tanium codebase or creation of internal tooling that aim at improving the overall security posture of Tanium software. In addition, the Senior Product Security Engineer will perform research on industry trends and developments, and share such perspectives in appropriate forums.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with Platform, Product, and Cloud Engineering teams to educate them on threats and vulnerabilities applicable to Tanium’s software
• Perform security assessments of Tanium’s software (manual and automated pen testing)
• Perform secure source code reviews
• Assess the design of new products and major updates to existing products, and provide recommendations to improve security
• Develop tools that make it easier to ship secure code and harder to ship insecure code
• Develop and share research in the area of product security and vulnerability management

We’re looking for someone with:

• Education
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience
• 5+ years relevant work experience preferred
• Other
• Expertise with common security testing methodologies
• Strong understanding of web and native application security
• Expertise in manual and automated pen testing 
• Experience performing source code reviews
• Experience with using Burp Suite or similar tools
• Experience with Cloud Platform (AWS or Oracle preferred)
• Experience with at least one of the following programming languages: Golang, JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, C++, React, Python (to perform source code reviews)
• Experience with fuzz testing
• Experience with the process of developing, building, and shipping secure code
• Expertise in determining the severity of a vulnerability and their impact to the business

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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