Engineering Manager

Tanium; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 278,000 - 426,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Generous benefits package

Job summary

Tanium is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team within the Endpoint Team. You will collaborate with product managers, other engineering managers, and senior leadership to drive development of foundational components for Tanium’s unified endpoint management and security platform.

You will hire, coach, and guide engineers, shape the roadmap, and ensure delivery of scalable, reliable software across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams
• 10+ years designing, developing, testing, and deploying software products
• Proven track record of architecting enterprise-level reliable and scalable solutions
• Understanding of Windows, Linux, and macOS system concepts
• Deep knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle
• Creative, pragmatic problem-solver with curiosity about new technologies

Responsibilities

• Build exceptional teams by hiring, coaching, and driving ownership and impact
• Define vision and roadmap with product managers and security engineers
• Provide leadership while fostering a collaborative, innovative culture
• Coordinate cross-team requirements, designs, dependencies, and improvements
• Lead by example to raise the team's technical bar and delivery quality
• Adjust team composition and create new teams as business needs evolve
• Manage multiple projects through the full software development lifecycle
• Deliver dependable, scalable software that runs on customer assets across environments

Skills

Team management

Engineering leadership

System design

SDLC knowledge

Industry trends

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science

Job description

The Basics

As an Engineering Manager at Tanium, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of brilliant software engineers. As part of the Endpoint Team, you will work across the product portfolio with product managers, other engineering managers, the technical documentation team, and senior leadership to drive development of the foundational components at the heart of Tanium’s unified endpoint management and security platform.

The Basics

As an Engineering Manager at Tanium, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of brilliant software engineers. As part of the Endpoint Team, you will work across the product portfolio with product managers, other engineering managers, the technical documentation team, and senior leadership to drive development of the foundational components at the heart of Tanium’s unified endpoint management and security platform.

What You’ll Do

• Build exceptional teams of highly qualified and high-performance engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact
• Work closely with product managers, security engineers and other teams to define the vision and roadmap with a focus on the needs of Tanium’s customers
• Provide leadership, guidance and support while nurturing a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture
• Team with other managers to coordinate requirements, designs, dependencies, and opportunities for collaboration and process improvements
• Lead by example, leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure that the team consistently delivers outstanding results
• Work with senior engineering leaders to adjust the composition of the team and create new teams as necessary to respond to changing business needs
• Effectively manage multiple projects throughout the entire software development cycle
• Ensure delivery of dependable, supportable, scalable, and performant software that runs natively on customer assets in a wide variety of environments
• Lead a team of tenured, senior systems developers, removing roadblocks and ensuring they have what they need to get their job done in the most optimal way

We’re looking for someone with

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience

Experience

• 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, preferably in an area of systems engineering
• 10+ years designing, developing, testing, and deploying software products
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering enterprise-level reliable and scalable solutions
• Demonstrable understanding of systems level concepts in Windows, Linux, and macOS
• A thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle
• Outside the box/first principles thinker who can come up with pragmatic solutions
• Keep up with industry trends and can assess and utilize new technologies to help solve problems

Other

• Demonstrates initiative and motivation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Team player
• Person of high ethics and integrity
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable. Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security toinnovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visitwww.tanium.comand follow us onLinkedInandX.

What You’ll Get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $278,000 to $426,000. 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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