Senior Software Engineer

Tanium; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 293,000; Part time

Job summary

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain scalable backend services powering our products. This hybrid role requires in-office presence at least three days a week in Bellevue, WA, with collaboration across product management and customers for input.

You will design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up, partner with a nimble team, and focus on security, performance and reliability while embracing automation and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Advanced knowledge of C++ and backend services.
• Experience with public cloud technologies (AWS/Azure).
• Experience with cryptographic primitives, TLS, PKI and HTTP API design.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Tanium's servers and client alongside a highly agile development team.
• Focus on customer engagement and feedback to design right-from-start products.
• Design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up with product management input.

Skills

C++

Backend design

API development

Cloud platforms

AI integration

Testing & debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

CS degree or related field preferred

Tools

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

The Basics (Hybrid Role - Part-time in office)

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer focused on platform development, you will build and maintain best-of-breed services that power products as part of a nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new product ideas are identified, our software engineers design, develop, test, and deploy the products and supporting services from the ground up, while iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input.

This position follows the Company's hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; or Emeryville, CA

What you'll do

Build and maintaining Tanium's servers and client alongside a highly agile development team

Focus on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning

Design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input

We're looking for someone with

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• CS Degree or related technical field preferred

Experience

• 7+ years industry experience, 10+ preferred
• Advanced knowledge of C++
• Experience designing and building high-performance, secure, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
• Experience with public cloud technologies (e.g. AWS or Azure)
• Experience with cryptographic primitives, TLS, PKI
• Experience with HTTP API design and development
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git, GHA and Jenkins
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools and technologies into software development, including AI-assisted coding and prompt engineering.

Other

• Demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development, and long-term code maintainability and supportability
• Communicates effectively, both technically and non-technically, as well as in written and oral forms
• Believes in the power of and the need for writing automated tests as part of development
• Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
• Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to learn new tools
• Detail-oriented and passionate for creating an awesome user experience

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X .

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it's imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What you'll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $191,000 to $293,000 This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a gene