Senior Security Engineer, Customer Transparency (Remote)

Tanium Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 293,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanium is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for Customer Transparency, remote in the US. You’ll lead the vulnerability disclosure program, deepen customer understanding of security needs, and drive security issues to resolution across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.

You will own SBOM and vulnerability management, author advisories, and handle external communications, while collaborating with researchers and customers to close security gaps and improve Tanium’s security posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred.
• Experience with product and application security, vulnerability research, or software engineering with a security focus.
• Experience interacting with customers and external security researchers.
• Experience applying AI tooling to security work, with an informed view of where it helps and where it manufactures noise.
• Experience building tools or data interfaces used by external stakeholders, including support and customers.
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience determining the severity and exploitability of a vulnerability and their impact to the business.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain security tooling, leveraging AI where possible to streamline security processes.
• Identify what customers can't see about their own Tanium deployment and partner with Engineering and Product stakeholders to close those gaps.
• Oversee the SBOM and vulnerability management program and provide appropriate visibility to internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Customers, Partners, and Tanium's Customer organization to learn what customers actually need and build the systems that solve them.
• Act as a security technical resource for customer-facing teams: answer inbound security inquiries and escalations, maintain a library of reusable answers.
• Administer Tanium's bug bounty program: triage inbound reports, assess exploitability and severity, adjudicate duplicates, and foster researcher relationships.
• Author and publish Tanium Security Advisories and CVE records, including CWE classification and CVSS scoring.
• Coordinate disclosure timing and embargoes across researchers, customers, partners, and external coordinating bodies.

Skills

Security engineering

Customer communication

AI tooling in security

SBOM & vulnerability mgmt

Vulnerability disclosure

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Tanium is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for Customer Transparency, remote in the US. You’ll lead the vulnerability disclosure program, deepen customer understanding of security needs, and drive security issues to resolution across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.

You will own SBOM and vulnerability management, author advisories, and handle external communications, while collaborating with researchers and customers to close security gaps and improve Tanium’s security posture.