The Basics:
As a Tanium Software Engineer II focused on Backend, you will build and maintain best-of-breed services that power products as part of a nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning.
What you’ll do:
- Build and maintain Tanium's backend services alongside an agile development team
- In partnership with our frontend and endpoint teams you will design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input
- Work on small teams that tackle big challenges in common components like a common data service tasked with unifying and consolidating endpoint data across the entire ecosystem, handling time series data that drive dashboarding and reporting, and exposing data externally through GraphQL enabling partners (like Salesforce) to easily integrate.
- Delivering higher level services enabled by our core services that directly enable our products. These services focus on everything from security to operations to auditing.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Computer Science or relevant degree preferred
- Experience
- 2+ years industry experience
- Experience working with senior developers designing and building high-impact, high-performance, scalable, observable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
- Knowledge of at least one of Golang (preferred), Node.js, Python, Ruby, Rust, or Java
- Experience with HTTP API development including REST and/or GraphQL
- Experience developing on data processing pipelines for real time data
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with containers and microservices
- Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines
- Other
- Demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development, long-term code maintainability and supportability
- Believes in the power of and the need for writing automated tests as part of development
- Experience debugging when things go wrong
- Has knowledge of modern backend software frameworks and the versatility to learn new tools
About Tanium
Tanium offers an endpoint management and security platform built for the world’s most demanding IT environments. Many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated organizations — including nearly half of the Fortune 100, top retailers and financial institutions, and multiple branches of the U.S. Armed Forces — rely on Tanium to make confident decisions, operate efficiently, and remain resilient against disruption. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list of “Top 100 Private Companies in Cloud Computing” for five consecutive years and ranks 4th on FORTUNE’s list of the “Best Workplaces in Technology 2020.”
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.
We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and 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.
Vaccine Mandate
At Tanium, the health and safety of our employees and the community are our top priority. In our effort to control the spread of Covid-19, Tanium requires that all newly hired employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 as of their start date, to the extent allowed by applicable law. If you are unable to get the Covid-19 vaccine due to a medical condition, disability, or sincerely held religious belief, Tanium will engage in the interactive process and consider requests for an accommodation.
Taking care of our team members
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.
