Software Engineer II — AI Security & Scalable Backend

Speedrun Talent Network; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 154,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Medical and dental

Vision plan

401(k) match

Health Savings Account

Transportation benefits

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Employee assistance program

Family planning benefits

Job summary

Tanium is hiring a Software Engineer II to build a new AI Security solution for large enterprises. This full-stack role emphasizes backend engineering, scalable services, and security.

You will work with LLM integrations, tool-calling frameworks, MCP, and data pipelines to enable visibility and control over agentic AI across environments. You'll join an agile team, design high-impact backend services, and contribute to product ideas from conception through delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Experience designing high-performance, scalable backend services and APIs.
• Experience building AI-powered products or agents at scale, including LLM integrations.
• Hands-on experience with MCP servers or integrations in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-scale, distributed backend systems for AI security.
• Build services using LLM APIs, tool-calling frameworks, and MCP.
• Design retrieval (RAG) data pipelines to support AI-driven capabilities.
• Review, refactor, and debug AI-generated code with sound judgment.
• Collaborate with product management to shape new ideas and deliver value.
• Work on components unifying endpoint data and exposing data via GraphQL.

Skills

Golang

Node.js

Python

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

MySQL

REST APIs

Git

Jenkins

Security principles

LLM integrations

MCP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GraphQL

Job description

Tanium is hiring a Software Engineer II to build a new AI Security solution for large enterprises. This full-stack role emphasizes backend engineering, scalable services, and security.

You will work with LLM integrations, tool-calling frameworks, MCP, and data pipelines to enable visibility and control over agentic AI across environments. You'll join an agile team, design high-impact backend services, and contribute to product ideas from conception through delivery.