Senior Software Engineer, Tanium
$191-293k
+ Equity awards
3+ days a week in office (Emeryville, CA)
Security & systems management platform
Be an early applicant
Security & systems management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$191-293k
+ Equity awards
3+ days a week in office (Emeryville, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide manageability and security at scale for anything with a chip.
Role
Who you are
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- CS Degree preferred
- Must be eligible for U.S. federal contract work; ability to obtain Canadian Reliability status (Protected B) is a plus, but not required
- 5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred
- Experience building large cloud-based data services
- Knowledge of at least one of Golang (preferred), C++, or Rust
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with API design and development
- Experience with Azure or AWS Database Services
- Experience with cloud object storage, such as AWS S3 or Azure Blob Storage
- Experience designing memory-efficient streaming and multipart data-transfer systems
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines
- Demonstrates excellent 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 and address the root causes of those fires for the future
- Has knowledge of a variety of modern backend software frameworks and the versatility to learn new tools and languages
What the job involves
- As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer, you will be tasked with building and maintaining best-of-breed products as part of a small and nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning
- When new products ideas are identified, our software engineers are responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying the products from the ground up, while continuously iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input
- Building and maintaining Tanium's products alongside a highly agile development team
- Focusing on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning
- Designing, developing and testing 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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