Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer at Tanium builds and maintains cloud-based products in a small agile team, designing, developing, testing, and deploying new features while collaborating with product management and customers for feedback.
About this role
The Basics
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.
What you’ll do
- 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
We’re looking for someone with
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- CS Degree preferred
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Experience
- 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
Other- 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
About Tanium
On a mission. Together.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.
What you’ll get
The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $191,000 to $293,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.
In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a 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 with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.
Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.
Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.
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