# Software Engineer II, AI Security

Summary/Objectives Tanium is seeking a Software Engineer II to help build a new AI Security solution that enables the world's largest enterprises to secure AI agents and the endpoints they run on. In this full-stack role with a strong emphasis on backend engineering, you will design and develop high-scale, distributed systems that give customers visibility into and control over agentic AI across their environments. The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of building reliable, performant services at scale, a strong foundation in security principles, and hands-on familiarity with the technologies that power AI agents and agent harnesses, such as LLM integrations, tool-calling frameworks, and the Model Context Protocol. This is an opportunity to shape a product at the forefront of AI security and make a significant impact at a company dedicated to transforming how organizations manage and secure their technology environments. Essential Job Functions Contribute to the design and development of high-scale, distributed backend systems that give customers visibility into and control over agentic AI across their environments Build services and integrations using LLM APIs, tool-call

- **Id**: 3897517
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tanium-software-engineer-ii-ai-security>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Durham, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T19:20:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T12:00:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8243
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Service & Asset Management, Endpoint Security

## Company

- **Id**: 3992
- **Name**: Tanium
- **Domain**: tanium.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tanium>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 40
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 154000
- **Max**: 236000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 236000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Tanium** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T23:36:09Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 3 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 3

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 40
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 236000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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