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Tanium

Senior Software Engineer - Backend Infrastructure

Tanium, Reston, Virginia, United States, 22090

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Overview Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com.

Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.

The Basics (Hybrid Role - Part-time in office)

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer focused on developing cloud technologies, you will build and maintain best-of-breed products and infrastructure as part of a nimble development team. Tanium uses 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, iterating with product management and customers for feedback.

We’re looking for someone with:

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

CS Degree preferred

Locality

U.S. Candidates: In accordance with United States government customer requirements, applicants for this role must be a U.S. citizen, national, or resident pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) and 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)

Experience

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 Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and other infrastructure technology

Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like GitHub Actions 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

About Tanium

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its 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. Tanium serves customers worldwide, including Fortune 100 organizations, major retailers, banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 and Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For.

On a mission. Together.

We are committed to collaboration, respect, and diversity and aim to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities in our team. We provide opportunities to succeed and grow, recognizing that diverse perspectives strengthen our work.

Each of our team members has 5 days of volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in.

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $120,000 to $355,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire and may be adjusted based on location, education, skills, training, and experience. In addition to base salary, team members receive equity awards and a benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision, health accounts, 401(k) with company match, life, disability coverage, and other well-being benefits.

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Hybrid in-office locations

This is a hybrid position, requiring in-person attendance several days per week in one of the following locations: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

Work authorization

Does your work authorization require Tanium to sponsor or renew an employment-based visa now or in the future? Are you lawfully authorized to work in the US or can you provide proof of employment eligibility upon hire?

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To comply with government reporting obligations, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Providing this information is voluntary and will not affect your hiring decision. Any information provided will be kept confidential and used for diversity reporting purposes only. More details are provided in the EEO policy.

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Categories of Protected Veterans

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Disability Self-Identification

We collect disability information to comply with OFCCP requirements. Providing this information is voluntary and confidential. For details, see the OFCCP information and Tanium’s policy.

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