Senior Software Engineer

Tanium•Durham, NC

10d•$191,000 - $293,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

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