Senior Software Engineer, Tanium
Platform Developer
$95-280k
Office located in Emeryville, CA
Security & systems management platform
Job no longer available
Security & systems management platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$95-280k
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 or equivalent experience
- CS Degree or related technical field preferred
- 7+ years 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 (e.g. AWS or Azure)
- Experience with cryptographic primitives, TLS, PKI
- Experience with HTTP API design and development
- Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git, GHA and Jenkins
- Demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development, and long-term code maintainability and supportability
- Communicates effectively, both technically and non-technically, as well as in written and oral forms
- Believes in the power of and the need for writing automated tests as part of development
- Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
- Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to learn new tools
- Detail-oriented and passionate for creating an awesome user experience
What the job involves
- As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer focused on platform development, 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
- When new product ideas are identified, our software engineers design, develop, test, and deploy the products and supporting services from the ground up, while iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input
- Build and maintaining Tanium's servers and client alongside a highly agile development team
- Focus on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning
- Design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input
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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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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