Software Engineer II - Cloud

The Basics

Tanium, the industry’s leading provider of Autonomous Endpoint Management, is at the forefront of revolutionizing legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Our platform integrates IT operations, security, and risk into a single, comprehensive solution, delivering visibility, control, and protection at scale. Tanium is trusted by over half of the Fortune 100 and 5 of the 6 branches of the U.S. armed forces.  

As a Software Engineer II at Tanium, you will embark on an exciting new project focusing on building a robust data transport system and API standardization process. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will ensure our services achieve top-tier performance, security, and scalability. 

This is a hybrid position, which will require attendance several days each week in Durham, NC.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain Tanium's products alongside an agile development team
• Design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input
• Work on small teams that tackle big challenges in common components like a common data service tasked with unifying and consolidating endpoint data across the entire ecosystem, handling time series data that drive dash boarding and reporting, and exposing data externally through GraphQL enabling partners (like Salesforce) to easily integrate
• Delivering higher level services enabled by our core services that directly enable our products and focus on everything from security to operations to auditing

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• CS Degree preferred

Experience

• Eligible to obtain the FedRAMP security clearance 
• 3+ years industry experience
• Expertise building GraphQL APIs
• Expertise in Gateway technologies (e.g., Azure Application Gateway, AWS API Gateway, Istio Gateway) to optimize network traffic and streamline communication between services
• Experience building services on top of Kubernetes
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm Charts, CloudFormation)
• Experience designing and building high-impact, high-performance, scalable, observable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
• Knowledge of at least one of Golang (preferred), Node.js, Python, Ruby, Rust, or Java
• Experience with HTTP API design and development
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and Jenkins

Other

• Demonstrates sound 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
• Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to learn new tools

About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its 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. 

On a mission. Together. 

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