Tanium Software Engineer II (Backend / Fullstack)

Summary/Objectives 

As a Tanium Software Engineer II focused on Backend, 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. 

Essential Job Functions 

Build and maintain Tanium's backend services alongside an agile development team  In partnership with our frontend and endpoint teams you will design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input  Work on small teams that tackle big challenges in common components like a common data service tasked with unifying and consolidating endpoint data across the entire ecosystem, handling time series data that drive dashboarding and reporting, and exposing data externally through GraphQL enabling partners (like Salesforce) to easily integrate.  Delivering higher level services enabled by our core services that directly enable our products. These services focus on everything from security to operations to auditing. 

 Minimum & Preferred Job Qualifications 

Education 

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience  Computer Science or relevant degree preferred 

Experience 

2+ years industry experience  Experience working with senior developers 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 HTTP API development including REST and/or GraphQL  Experience developing data processing pipelines for real time data  Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms  Experience with containers and microservices  Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines 

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  Experience debugging when things go wrong  Has knowledge of modern backend software frameworks and the versatility to learn new tools 

About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its converged endpoint management (XEM) platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, 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 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. 

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.   

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $95,000 to $290,000. 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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