Threat Hunter, Tanium
$95-280k
+ Team members will receive equity awards
3 days a week in office (Emeryville, CA)
Security and systems management platform
Open for applications
Security and systems management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$95-280k
+ Team members will receive equity awards
3 days a week in office (Emeryville, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Tanium's mission is to provide manageability and security at scale for anything with a chip.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, threat hunting, or related defensive security roles
- Hands‑on experience performing threat hunting, detection analysis, and investigation work across enterprise environments
- Strong knowledge of incident response processes, including scoping, containment, remediation planning, and post‑incident improvements
- Experience with security platforms such as EDR, SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence platforms, or similar technologies
- Direct customer‑facing experience, providing security guidance, technical support, or operational enablement
- Proficiency with scripting or API usage (e.g., Python, PowerShell, REST APIs) for integrations and data‑driven investigations
- Understanding threat intelligence concepts, detection engineering principles, and threat visibility best practices
- Ability to collaborate cross‑functionally with product, engineering, and security teams to translate customer needs into actionable improvements
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to varied audiences
- Core Competencies
- Demonstrates initiative and motivation
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Team player
- Person of high ethics and integrity
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
- Strong customer communication, guidance, and hands-on operational support
What the job involves
- This role delivers expert‑level threat operations support by strengthening customer incident response readiness, performing hands‑on threat hunting, and enhancing detection and visibility across enterprise environments.
- It partners directly with customers in a hands‑on‑keyboard capacity to operationalize Tanium, build API‑based integrations, and drive meaningful security improvements.
- The objective is to elevate customer maturity to a proactive security strategy by combining technical depth, product expertise, and close collaboration with internal teams to address emerging threats and evolving operational needs
- Strengthen customer incident response readiness, assist with remediation planning, and augment response capabilities during incidents to improve overall security maturity and readiness of customers
- Perform hands‑on threat hunting with customers, executing the full hunting lifecycle to detect, investigate, and reduce emerging threats
- Provide expert deployment and enablement of Tanium Security Operations solutions tailored to each customer’s unique use cases
- Conduct threat intelligence analysis, build and refine detections, and tune intel with customers to enhance threat visibility and response
- Work side‑by‑side with customers in a hands‑on‑keyboard capacity to guide, support, and maximize the effectiveness of the Tanium Platform
- Collaborate closely with internal product teams, providing customer‑driven feedback and hands‑on insights to shape and enhance the Tanium Platform
- Build API‑driven integrations with third‑party tools and create custom Tanium hunts using the API to baseline and enhance customer threat visibility and capability
- Partner with internal teams to research emerging security challenges—such as AI, container and cloud security, and OT—to inform customer guidance and platform improvements
Our take
For millions of companies, cyber security is high on the agenda, especially as remote working has become the norm. Tanium offers a security and systems management platform that allows real-time data collection at an enterprise scale. It covers customers such as AutoNation, GoDaddy, and Whirlpool who use the company’s software to stay abreast of the ever-increasing level of sophisticated cyber attacks.
A valuable tool for enterprises and government organisations, it partners with leading platforms and service providers across the world like Google Cloud, Oracle and Verizon. In doing so, it allows security and IT teams access to accurate information on the state of endpoints, helping it to realise new levels of business resilience.
Tanium added a former US Defence Secretary to its Board in 2021. A collaboration with Salesforce provided a platform that supports IT service management, remote monitoring and management, and cybersecurity capabilities. In the same year, the appointment of CFO Mark Levine could signal an IPO in the near future.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$150m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$150m
LATE VC
Total funding: $805.7m
Company benefits
- Equity awards
- 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
- Business travel accident insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Disability insurance
Company HQ
Lakeview, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
David Hindawi
(Executive Chairman)Before co-founding Tanium, David founded BigFix Inc, a systems management tool that IBM acquired, and Software Ventures, a leader in telecommunications software. They have several software patents in network communications and systems management.
Orion Hindawi
(Executive Chairman)Before co-founding Tanium with their father, David, Orion worked as the VP of Technology for BigFix, the systems management tool founded by their father. Previously served as CEO for Tanium.
Dan Streetman
(CEO)Previously served as CEO for both Allvue Systems and TIBCO. Experience as EVP of Worldwide Sales & Marketing for BMC Software and as SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels for Salesforce.
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