Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Position Overview

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 emphasizes a customer engagement model, iteratively developing new products with input from product management and customers. You will work in a full-stack capacity, employing solid backend and frontend programming skills. This position follows a hybrid schedule with in-office work in Durham, NC, three days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Tanium's products alongside an agile development team.
• Design, develop, and test new product ideas from the ground up while collaborating with product management.
• Work on small teams to tackle challenges in common components, including unifying and consolidating endpoint data and exposing data externally via GraphQL.
• Deliver high-level services that support core products, focusing on aspects from security to operations and auditing.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; a CS Degree is preferred.
• 7+ years of industry experience.
• Experience in designing and building high-impact, scalable, and maintainable backend services and APIs.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Golang (preferred), Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Rust.
• Experience with frontend technologies like React, Typescript, and JavaScript.
• Ability to work with relational databases such as Postgres, SQL, or MySQL.
• Knowledge of HTTP API design and development and modern software engineering tools like Git and Jenkins.
• Demonstrated sound judgment balancing rapid development with long-term code maintainability and supportability.
• Belief in the importance of writing automated tests as part of the development process.
• Skilled debugger capable of resolving critical issues in production.
• Versatility in learning new tools and familiarity with a variety of modern software frameworks for both server and browser side.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: Annual base salary range of $120,000 to $355,000 (actual offer may vary based on location, education, skills, training, and experience).
• Equity awards.
• Generous benefits package including medical, dental, and vision plans; family planning benefits; health savings and flexible spending accounts; transportation savings account; 401(k) retirement plan with company match; life, accident and disability coverage; business travel accident insurance; employee assistance programs; and disability insurance.
• 5 days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO) each year to contribute to the community.