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 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. The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit  www.tanium.com  and follow us on  LinkedIn  and  X . 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 s