Senior Software Engineer - Backend​/Full Stack Software

Senior Software Engineer - Backend/ Full Stack

Location:

Addison, Texas, United States;
Durham, North Carolina, United States

Compensation: $191, USD / year

Job Tags:
Software

As a Senior Software Engineer at Tanium, you will build and maintain best‑of‑breed products as part of a nimble development team. You will specifically be part of a team that is building out a new service that manages all the certificates for our internal services.

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 or Durham, NC.

Education

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

Experience

• Must be eligible to obtain the FedRAMP security clearance at a minimum
• Proficient with AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, Git Hub Copilot)
• 5+ years industry experience
• Experience designing and building high‑impact, high‑performance, scalable, observable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
• Knowledge of at least one of Golang (preferred), Node.js, Python, Ruby, Rust, or Java
• Experience with React, Java script, or typescript
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and other infrastructure technology
• 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

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.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well‑being benefits.

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