Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack

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Addison, TX (Hybrid);
Bellevue, WA (Hybrid);
Durham, NC (Hybrid);
Emeryville, CA (Hybrid)

As a Full‑Stack Senior Software Engineer at Tanium, you will build and maintain best‑of‑breed 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. When new product ideas are identified, our software engineers design, develop, test, and deploy the products from the ground up, while iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input.

This is a full‑stack role that requires solid backend programming skills.

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week:
Addison, TX;
Bellevue, WA;
Durham, NC;
Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

• Build and maintain Tanium's products alongside an agile development team. Most backend is Golang and node.js.
• 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 Graph
  
  QL enabling partners (like Salesforce) to easily integrate
• Delivering higher level services enabled by our core services that directly enable our products and focus on everything from security to operations to auditing

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• CS Degree preferred

• 5+ years industry experience
• Experience 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, or Rust
• Experience with HTTP API design and development
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and Jenkins

• 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
• Experienced debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments

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.

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real‑time cloud‑based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real‑time, seamless, and autonomous,…