Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Tanium; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps to design and manage systems, tools, and infrastructure enabling the engineering org to deliver code rapidly, safely, and reliably. The role follows a hybrid schedule requiring three days per week in Reston, VA or other listed offices.

You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deploy cloud-native apps, and partner with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities while promoting robust monitoring and automation across Tanium's infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development, DevOps, or SRE.
• 3+ years IaC with Pulumi or Terraform.
• 3+ years Docker/Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience with Linux environments.
• Security-minded and incident response oriented.
• Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional teams to develop next-gen CI/CD pipelines for Tanium products.
• Support and deploy CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Deploy and maintain cloud-native microservices infrastructure.
• Collaborate with security teams to build tools identifying vulnerabilities and remediation steps.
• Design systems to monitor critical infrastructure and plan for future needs.
• Improve deployment quality and velocity through automation.
• Plan and execute major infra improvements and upgrades.

Skills

DevOps

SRE practices

Cloud platforms

Pulumi/Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Networking

API integration

Config management

GitHub Actions

Monitoring

Linux

Automation

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

CS degree preferred

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

InfluxDB

VirtualBox

VMware

Job description

The Basics

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, you will be designing and managing systems, tools, and infrastructure to enable the entire engineering org to deliver code to our customers consistently, rapidly, safely, and reliably.

The Basics

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, you will be designing and managing systems, tools, and infrastructure to enable the entire engineering org to deliver code to our customers consistently, rapidly, safely, and reliably.

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: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

What You’ll Do

• Work alongside a cross-functional engineering team to develop the next generation pipeline to build, release, and test Tanium products and services
• Support existing efforts to deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
• Work with product security teams to build tools to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities
• Design systems that effectively monitor critical infrastructure, plan for future needs, and rapidly respond to incidents
• Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
• Plan, execute, and support scheduled major improvements to our infrastructure

We’re looking for someone with

Education

• Bachelor's or equivalent experience.
• CS Degree preferred.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or SRE role
• 5+ years of experience managing cloud-based services with AWS, GCP or Azure (AWS preferred)
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi or Terraform (Pulumi preferred)
• 3+ years of Docker/Kubernetes experience in production environment
• Deep understanding of networking, with the ability to build and maintain complex networks
• 3+ years of experience writing software that utilizes 3rd party APIs (go preferred)
• Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or another config management suite, know where it’s broken, and are open to trying new alternatives
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools (Git, GitHub Actions, JIRA)
• Experience with virtualization technologies (VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, vCenter)
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments
• Experience managing metrics gathering and reporting systems (Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB)
• Experience with Linux environments
• Believes in the power of test and process automation
• Deliberate and demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development and long-term code maintainability and supportability
• Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
• Relentless desire to automate and build software tools
• Have a customer-centric work approach to drive positive experiences for Tanium customers
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a remote work setting
• Motivated self-starter

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, visitwww.tanium.comand follow us onLinkedInandX.

On a mission. Together.