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Salary: USD 191,000 - 293,000 / annual
Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain best-of-breed services powering the Autonomous IT Platform. You will work as part of a nimble development team designing, developing, testing, and deploying products and supporting services from the ground up. The role emphasizes a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure products are designed correctly from inception. You will iterate closely with product management and customers throughout the development lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining Tanium's servers and client infrastructure alongside an agile development team
- Designing, developing, and testing new product ideas from conception while collaborating with product management
- Focusing on customer engagement and feedback integration to drive product design decisions
- Contributing to high-performance, secure, scalable backend services and APIs
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company, recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools and the IDC MarketScape for Client Endpoint Management. The company has been on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years.
The position is hybrid, requiring a minimum of three days per week in one of the three office locations: Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; or Emeryville, CA.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; CS degree or related technical field preferred
- 7+ years of 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 (AWS or Azure)
- Experience with cryptographic primitives, TLS, and PKI
- Experience with HTTP API design and development
- Experience with modern software engineering tools (git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools and technologies into software development, including AI-assisted coding and prompt engineering
- Sound judgment balancing rapid development with long-term code maintainability
- Effective communication skills, both technical and non-technical, written and oral
- Strong commitment to automated testing as part of development
- Skilled at debugging and resolving production issues under pressure
- Knowledge of modern software frameworks (server-side and browser-side) with versatility to learn new tools
- Detail-oriented with passion for creating excellent user experiences
