Senior AI Security Engineer – Scalable Backend

Tanium; Texas; On-site; USD 191,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build a new AI Security solution for securing AI agents and their endpoints. This full‑stack role emphasizes backend engineering, designing high‑scale distributed systems, and applying security principles to production services.

You will work with LLM integrations, tool‑calling frameworks, and the Model Context Protocol, shaping a product at the forefront of AI security while collaborating with product management, UX, and other engineers to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production-quality software
• Distributed systems or large-scale, high-availability applications experience
• Experience building AI-powered products or agents at scale, including LLM integrations and tool-calling
• Hands-on experience building an MCP server or integration in production
• Experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) data pipelines
• Backend services and enterprise web apps serving large user bases
• Experience with full SDLC lifecycle
• Preferred: cybersecurity/SaaS/enterprise software experience
• Preferred: security principles like authentication, authorization, threat modeling
• Familiarity with AWS/Azure/GCP

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-scale, distributed backend systems
• Build services using LLM APIs, tool-calling frameworks, and MCP
• Lead code reviews and mentor engineers
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Collaborate with product, UX, and engineers to deliver high-quality solutions
• Partner with security and infra teams to align with Tanium standards

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Python

AI tooling

Prompt engineering

Security principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

LLM APIs

RAG pipelines

Job description

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build a new AI Security solution for securing AI agents and their endpoints. This full‑stack role emphasizes backend engineering, designing high‑scale distributed systems, and applying security principles to production services.

You will work with LLM integrations, tool‑calling frameworks, and the Model Context Protocol, shaping a product at the forefront of AI security while collaborating with product management, UX, and other engineers to