Software Engineer II - Backend/Full-Stack
Tanium Inc.About the role
The Basics:
As a Tanium Software Engineer II focused on Full-stack, you will build and maintain best-of-breed services that power products 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.
What you’ll do:
- Build and maintain Tanium's backend services alongside an agile development team
- In partnership with our frontend and endpoint teams you will 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 dashboarding 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. These services focus on everything from security to operations to auditing.
We’re looking for someone with:
Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Computer Science or relevant degree preferred
Experience
- 3+ years industry experience
- Experience working with senior developers 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 development including REST and/or GraphQL
- Experience developing data processing pipelines for real time data
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with containers and microservices
- Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines
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
- Experience debugging when things go wrong
- Has knowledge of modern backend software frameworks 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.
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.
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