Senior Cloud Backend Engineer — APIs & Data Services

Tanium; Emeryville (CA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision plan

Family planning benefits

Health savings account

Flexible spending account

Transportation savings account

401(k) retirement savings plan with  +

Life, accident and disability coverage

Employee assistance programs

Disability insurance

Other well-being benefits

Job summary

Tanium in Emeryville, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain our next generation data services within a nimble team. You will design, develop, test, and deploy products from ground up, iterating with product management and customers for feedback.

This hybrid role requires 5+ years of experience (7+ preferred) and proficiency in Golang, C++, or Rust, PostgreSQL, API design, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• CS degree preferred.
• 5+ years industry experience; 7+ preferred.
• Experience building large cloud-based data services.
• Knowledge of Golang, C++, or Rust.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with API design and development.
• Experience with Azure or AWS Database Services.
• Experience with cloud object storage (S3 or Azure Blob).
• Experience designing memory-efficient streaming and multipart data-transfer systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi) and Kubernetes.
• Experience with modern backend frameworks and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining Tanium's products alongside a highly agile development team.
• Focusing on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning.
• Designing, developing and testing new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input.

Skills

Golang

C++

Rust

PostgreSQL

API design

Cloud platforms

Cloud storage

Streaming data

Terraform / Pulumi

Kubernetes

Git / CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

CS degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Tanium in Emeryville, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain our next generation data services within a nimble team. You will design, develop, test, and deploy products from ground up, iterating with product management and customers for feedback.

This hybrid role requires 5+ years of experience (7+ preferred) and proficiency in Golang, C++, or Rust, PostgreSQL, API design, and cloud platforms.