Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

The Basics: 

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer focused on Cloud technologies, you will build and maintain best-of-breed products and infrastructure 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. 

What you’ll do: 

• Build and maintain Tanium's cloud products and services as part of agile development team 
• Maintaining and leveraging NATS clusters
• Implement intuitive front ends for customer-facing and internal applications 
• Build backend microservices with well defined API’s 
• Work with persistent data stores, caches, messages buses, and other server side technology 
• Create automated unit tests, API tests, integration tests and ensure quality delivery 
• Author technical documents and artifacts for developed software 

We’re looking for someone with: 

Education 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience 
• CS Degree or related technical field preferred 

Experience 

• Eligible to obtain the FedRAMP Security Clearance
• 5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred
• Experience designing and building high-impact, high-performance, secure, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
• Expert knowledge of working with messaging systems and NATS
• Expert knowledge of at least one of: Golang or Javascript/Typescript (preferred), Node.js
• Experience with Grafana / Prometheus preferred
• Experience with multiple cloud technologies (i.e. AWS and Azure)
• Experience designing and running health monitoring systems for multi-tenancy customers on Kubernetes.
• Experience working with Logging, Tracing or Alerting systems
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm Charts, CloudFormation, Pulumi)

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 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its converged endpoint management (XEM) platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X