Senior Software Engineer

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

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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• CS Degree or related technical field preferred

• 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.

• 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

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 Market Scape:
Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management  Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

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