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The Customer Transparency team is responsible for making Tanium's security posture something our customers can understand and act on, rather than something they have to blindly trust.\nAs a Senior Security Engineer on the Customer Transparency team, you will represent Tanium’s R&D Security organization to our external stakeholders. You will be responsible for our vulnerability disclosure program, developing a deep understanding of customers’ security needs, and taking action to drive these to resolution.\nWhat you’ll do\nBuild and maintain security tooling, leveraging AI where possible to streamline security processes\nIdentify what customers can't see about their own Tanium deployment and partner with Engineering and Product stakeholders to close those gaps\nOversee the SBOM and vulnerability management program and provide appropriate visibility to internal and external stakeholders\nCollaborate with Customers, Partners, and Tanium's Customer organization to learn what customers actually need, treat recurring questions as engineering problems, and build the systems that solve them\nAct as a security technical resource for customer-facing teams: answer inbound security inquiries and escalations, maintain a library of reusable answers, interface directly with customers when needed\nAdminister Tanium's bug bounty program: triage inbound reports against SLA, assess the exploitability and severity of reported issues, adjudicate duplicates and out-of-scope submissions, recommend awards, and foster productive relationships with researchers\nAuthor and publish Tanium Security Advisories and CVE records, including CWE classification and CVSS scoring\nCoordinate disclosure timing and embargoes across researchers, customers, partners, and external coordinating bodies\nWe’re looking for someone with\nEducation\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience\nExperience\n5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred\nExperience with product and application security, vulnerability research, or software engineering with a substantial security focus\nExperience interacting with customers and external security researchers\nExperience applying AI tooling to security work, with an informed view of where it helps and where it manufactures noise\nExperience building tools or data interfaces used by external stakeholders, including support and customers\nExperience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines\nExperience determining the severity and exploitability of a vulnerability and their impact to the business\nNice to have:\nFamiliarity with SCA/SBOM tooling and third-party dependency vulnerability management\nExperience with coordinated vulnerability disclosure and the mechanics of CVE assignment, CVSS, and CWE; CNA operations experience\nExperience running, or substantially supporting, a bug bounty program or VDP\nPublished vulnerability research, credited CVEs, bug bounty findings, open-source security tooling, or conference talks\nWorking knowledge of Tanium’s products and services\nStrong understanding of applied cryptography, including encryption, hashing, and secure key management\nCore Competencies\nDemonstrates initiative and motivation\nExcellent oral and written communication skills\nTeam player\nPerson of high ethics and integrity\nAbility to work in a fast-paced, changing environment\nAbout Tanium \nTanium 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. \nThe 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.\nTo learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.\nOn a mission. Together. \nAt 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. \nAs 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. \nOur 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. \nEach 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. \nWhat you’ll get \nThe 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.\nIn 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.\nTanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact . For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.\nPlease be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.\nThis link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. 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