Senior Software Engineer

The Basics

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Connect team, you will own how Tanium data reaches the rest of our customers' tools. Connect is the module that moves endpoint data and events out of Tanium and into external systems such as SIEMs (security information and event management tools like Splunk), data warehouses, ticketing systems, cloud storage, and email. Customers run thousands of these exports on schedules, and a failed or slow export means their security team is working with stale data.

You'll design and build the services behind Connect, shape its technical direction, and mentor engineers on the team. This role is a strong fit for someone on a path to Staff Engineer.

This position follows the Company's hybrid schedule, which currently requires employees to work in the office a minimum of three days per week at our Durham, NC or Emeryville, CA location. Candidates must be US-based.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable, reliable backend services in Node.js and Golang that collect, transform, and deliver large volumes of endpoint data to external destinations
• Design and evolve the APIs Connect exposes and consumes, with clear contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility
• Build and maintain integrations (connectors) to third-party platforms, handling their different authentication methods, rate limits, payload formats, and failure behavior
• Own delivery guarantees: retries, backoff, deduplication, and back-pressure (slowing intake when a destination can't keep up), so data is not lost or duplicated
• Build event-driven workflows using NATS (an open-source messaging system where services publish and subscribe to events) and Temporal (an open-source engine that runs multi-step jobs durably, so they resume where they left off after a crash)
• Lead technical design for new Connect capabilities, driving decisions across teams and writing design docs others can build from
• Improve observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting) so we find export problems before customers do
• Write unit tests for your code and partner with the QA and automation team on integration and end-to-end coverage, building services that are easy to test
• Debug production issues, find root causes, and build the fix that prevents the next one
• Mentor engineers and help set the team's standards for design, testing, and operations

We're looking for someone with

Education

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

Experience

• 8+ years building and running backend services in production, with a track record of leading designs and influencing direction beyond your own team
• Strong proficiency in Golang or Node.js, and willingness to work in both
• Experience designing APIs (REST, GraphQL, or gRPC) and building event-driven systems (NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar) and multi-step workflows
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and SaaS products, including OAuth (a standard for letting one app access another on a user's behalf)
• Experience with containers and cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Azure or AWS
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL data stores, plus git and CI/CD pipelines (such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions)
• Proficient with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot)
• Must be eligible to obtain FedRAMP clearance at a minimum (FedRAMP is the US government's security authorization program for cloud services)

Nice to have

• Experience with NATS or Temporal (or a similar workflow orchestration tool)
• Experience with SIEM or ITSM platforms (Splunk, ServiceNow) or with security and endpoint data
• Experience with React or TypeScript, or building multi-tenant SaaS services

Other

• Sound judgment balancing rapid development against long-term maintainability and supportability
• Believes quality is a shared responsibility and writes tests alongside the code
• Experienced debugger who can handle production fires under pressure and fix root causes
• Comfortable mentoring others and raising the bar for the team

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 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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