Senior Backend Engineer – Connect Platform

Tanium; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 293,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Connect team to own how data reaches customers’ tools. You will design and build scalable backend services in Node.js and Golang, develop connectors to third‑party platforms, and own delivery guarantees with robust observability and testing.

Hybrid schedule with in‑office days at Durham, NC or Emeryville, CA; US-based candidates preferred. The role emphasizes mentoring, technical direction, and cross‑team collaboration to ensure scalable,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• CS degree or related technical field preferred.
• 8+ years building and running backend services in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services in Node.js and Golang for exporting data to external destinations.
• Evolve APIs Connect exposes with versioning and compatibility.
• Build and maintain connectors to third‑party platforms and handle authentication and rate limits.
• Ensure delivery guarantees: retries, backoff, deduplication, back‑pressure.

Skills

Golang

Node.js

APIs REST/GraphQL

Event-driven systems

CI/CD pipelines

Docker/Kubernetes

Git

AI-assisted tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

CS degree or related technical field

Tools

NATS

Temporal

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Terraform

AWS/Azure

Job description

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Connect team to own how data reaches customers’ tools. You will design and build scalable backend services in Node.js and Golang, develop connectors to third‑party platforms, and own delivery guarantees with robust observability and testing.

Hybrid schedule with in‑office days at Durham, NC or Emeryville, CA; US-based candidates preferred. The role emphasizes mentoring, technical direction, and cross‑team collaboration to ensure scalable,