The Basics: 
The Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security team member will collaborate with Detection, Security, and Software Engineers to build and automate Tanium Cloud's internal security systems to protect and defend Tanium Cloud in AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes cloud hosting services. You will be an integral part of the Tanium Cloud security engineering team, responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of security systems to identify, assess, and counter risks and threats before impacting Tanium Cloud.  
 
What you'll do: 

Build and operate Tanium Cloud's security systems in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes for detections, analysis, and automation as code using DevOps methodologies Create, develop, and deploy software to enhance the reliability, scalability, response time, efficiency, and security of our internal tools and services managed by Tanium Cloud Building security tools with Golang using DevOps application development practices (e.g. Git, JIRA, Kanban), testing (GoMock, testify) and deployment (e.g. GitHub Action Runners, Terraform, CloudFormation) Possesses experience with various modern backend frameworks and adaptability to pick up new tools and languages Work together with the engineering, IT, and other security groups to create solutions that are expandable and adaptable to protect Tanium Cloud against threats ranging from low-level actors to national cyber-threat agents Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work Stay informed about the latest design patterns, reliability methods, and scaling techniques for cloud-native systems, services, and technologies Build metrics and observability for apps into Grafana and Prometheus 

We're looking for someone with: 

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience   Computer Science, or related technical field preferred   Locality: U.S. Candidates: In accordance with United States government customer requirements, applicants for this role must be a U.S. citizen, national, or resident pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) and 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)
Cloud Software Development Engineering Experience 5-7 years of experience in developing systems and automation for gathering and analyzing security data to enhance and automate security process 5+ years of full software development life cycle using Go, including code review, source control management, building, testing, and operational experience 4+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code (i.e. Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation) and software development in cloud, containers, and serverless in Azure & AWS Engineering Experience Utilize robust analytical and problem-solving capabilities to confirm our hypotheses using precise data and in-depth root cause investigation Experience using high-level programming languages (Go) to produce security services, tools, and automations Experience managing cloud infrastructure as infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Pulumi, Helm)   Deliver high quality PRs daily using modern software engineering development and automation tools like Git and CI/CD pipelines (i.e. Jenkins, GitHub Actions)   Other Deliver high-quality and efficient contributions by applying DevOps principles Relentless desire to automate the mundane to focus on solving the harder problems Experienced engineer 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 

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.   

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and 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. 

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 $120,000 to $355,000. 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.

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