Engineering Manager, Tanium
$278-426k
+ Equity awards
Office located in Emeryville, CA
Security & systems management platform
Be an early applicant
Security & systems management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$278-426k
+ Equity awards
Office located in Emeryville, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide manageability and security at scale for anything with a chip.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, preferably in an area of systems engineering
- 10+ years designing, developing, testing, and deploying software products
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering enterprise-level reliable and scalable solutions
- Demonstrable understanding of systems level concepts in Windows, Linux, and macOS
- A thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle
- Outside the box/first principles thinker who can come up with pragmatic solutions
- Keep up with industry trends and can assess and utilize new technologies to help solve problems
- 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
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager at Tanium, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of brilliant software engineers
- As part of the Endpoint Team, you will work across the product portfolio with product managers, other engineering managers, the technical documentation team, and senior leadership to drive development of the foundational components at the heart of Tanium’s unified endpoint management and security platform
- Build exceptional teams of highly qualified and high-performance engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact
- Work closely with product managers, security engineers and other teams to define the vision and roadmap with a focus on the needs of Tanium’s customers
- Provide leadership, guidance and support while nurturing a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture
- Team with other managers to coordinate requirements, designs, dependencies, and opportunities for collaboration and process improvements
- Lead by example, leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure that the team consistently delivers outstanding results
- Work with senior engineering leaders to adjust the composition of the team and create new teams as necessary to respond to changing business needs
- Effectively manage multiple projects throughout the entire software development cycle
- Ensure delivery of dependable, supportable, scalable, and performant software that runs natively on customer assets in a wide variety of environments
- Lead a team of tenured, senior systems developers, removing roadblocks and ensuring they have what they need to get their job done in the most optimal way
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, Tanium 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.
The company continues to innovate its offering through both further development and partnerships. For example, it collaborated with Salesforce to support IT service management, remote monitoring and management, and cybersecurity capabilities. It also made its autonomous operating system generally available to all commercial cloud customers in 2026, with more than 1,300 organisations adopting it in the first six weeks.
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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 & Board Member)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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