Senior AI Security Engineer – Backend & Scale

Speedrun Talent Network; Addison, Bellevue, Durham, Emeryville (TX, WA, NC, CA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Medical, dental, and vision plan

401(k) with company match

Well-being benefits

Job summary

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build a new AI Security solution, securing AI agents and endpoints. This full-stack role emphasizes backend engineering to design high-scale, distributed systems with security at the forefront.

You will work with LLM APIs, tool-calling frameworks, and MCP to deliver reliable, scalable software while collaborating across product, UX, and security teams. The role offers extensive growth in AI security and enterprise software.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production-quality software.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems or large-scale, high-availability applications.
• Experience building AI-powered products or agents at scale, including LLM integrations and tool-calling.
• Hands-on experience building a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in production.
• Experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) data pipelines.
• Experience building backend services and enterprise web applications serving large user bases.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle.
• Preferred: cybersecurity, SaaS, or enterprise software experience.
• Preferred: cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-scale, distributed backend systems for AI security applications.
• Build services using LLM APIs, tool-calling frameworks, and MCP; design RAG pipelines.
• Review, refactor, and debug AI-generated code with sound judgment.
• Architect features balancing performance, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with product, UX, and engineers to define requirements and deliver on schedule.
• Lead code reviews and mentor junior engineers to raise engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot complex defects and performance bottlenecks in development and production.
• Partner with security and infrastructure teams to meet Tanium's security standards.

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Security principles

Model Context Protocol

LLM integrations

Tool-calling frameworks

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

LLM APIs

Tool-calling frameworks

MCP server

Job description

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build a new AI Security solution, securing AI agents and endpoints. This full-stack role emphasizes backend engineering to design high-scale, distributed systems with security at the forefront.

You will work with LLM APIs, tool-calling frameworks, and MCP to deliver reliable, scalable software while collaborating across product, UX, and security teams. The role offers extensive growth in AI security and enterprise software.