Senior Software Engineer, DevOps Durham, NC (Hybrid); Reston, VA (Hybrid)

Tanium Inc.; Washington (NC); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Comprehensive benefits package

Hybrid work schedule

401(k) with company match

Health, dental, vision coverage

Job summary

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, to design and manage systems enabling rapid, safe software delivery. Hybrid work is required at Durham, NC or Reston, VA with other locations as options. The role emphasizes CI/CD, security tooling, and scalable infrastructure to support Tanium’s engineering org.

You will work with cross-functional teams to deploy cloud-native microservices, monitor systems, and improve deployment practices in a production environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• CS Degree preferred.
• 5+ years in software development, DevOps, or SRE.
• 5+ years managing cloud-based services with AWS, GCP or Azure.
• 3+ years IaC with Pulumi or Terraform.
• 3+ years Docker/Kubernetes in production.
• Deep understanding of networking.
• 3+ years writing software using 3rd party APIs (Go preferred).
• Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or other config management tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for Tanium products and services.
• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices.
• Collaborate with product security to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Design systems to monitor infrastructure and respond to incidents.
• Improve deployment quality and velocity through best practices.
• Plan and execute major improvements to our infrastructure.

Job description

Durham, NC (Hybrid); Reston, VA (Hybrid)

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, visit www.tanium.com andfollow 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 $180,000 to $270,000 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 generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

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