Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Tanium
Durham +3 more
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in cloud-native infrastructure and automation tooling.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years managing cloud services and a strong background in infrastructure automation
    — “5+ years of experience managing cloud-based services with AWS, GCP or Azure (AWS preferred)”
  • Individuals who have built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in production environments
    — “Support existing efforts to deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments”
  • Professionals with a strong debugging background and a customer-centric approach
    — “Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments”
  • Candidates with a background in hybrid cloud environments and remote collaboration
    — “Experience with hybrid cloud environments”

Things to consider

  • Hybrid work arrangement requires at least three days per week in-office at one of several locations
    — “currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week”
  • The role is likely to demand a high level of autonomy and initiative in automation efforts
    — “Relentless desire to automate and build software tools”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with Pulumi or Terraform in infrastructure automation projects
    — “3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi or Terraform (Pulumi preferred)”
  • Emphasize your track record in improving deployment quality and velocity
    — “Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments”
  • Showcase your ability to work in cross-functional teams with specific examples
    — “Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams”
  • Include examples of monitoring system design or incident response in your resume
    — “Design systems that effectively monitor critical infrastructure, plan for future needs, and rapidly respond to incidents”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • deploying and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • designing monitoring systems
  • building tools for security
Typical background
DevOps experiencecloud services management

Skills & requirements

Required

Cloud ServicesInfrastructure As CodeCi/cd PipelinesNetworkingLinux Environments

Preferred

Security ToolsAutomationCustomer-centric Approach

Stack & domain

AWSGCPAzurePulumiTerraformDockerKubernetesNetworkingAnsiblePuppetChefGitGithub ActionsJiraVirtualboxVmware FusionVcenterLinuxGrafanaPrometheusInfluxdb

About the role

Original posting from Tanium via Greenhouse

The Basics

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, you will be designing and managing systems, tools, and infrastructure to enable the entire engineering org to deliver code to our customers consistently, rapidly, safely, and reliably.   

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.

What you’ll do

Work alongside a cross-functional engineering team to develop the next generation pipeline to build, release, and test Tanium products and services  

Support existing efforts to deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments  

Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture  

Work with product security teams to build tools to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities  

Design systems that effectively monitor critical infrastructure, plan for future needs, and rapidly respond to incidents  

 Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments  

Plan, execute, and support scheduled major improvements to our infrastructure  

We’re looking for someone with

Education

Bachelor's or equivalent experience.  

CS Degree preferred. 

Experience

5+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or SRE role  

5+ years of experience managing cloud-based services with AWS, GCP or Azure (AWS preferred)  

3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi or Terraform (Pulumi preferred)  

3+ years of Docker/Kubernetes experience in production environment  

Deep understanding of networking, with the ability to build and maintain complex networks  

3+ years of experience writing software that utilizes 3rd party APIs (go preferred)  

Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or another config management suite, know where it's broken, and are open to trying new alternatives  

Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools (Git, GitHub Actions, JIRA)  

Experience with virtualization technologies (VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, vCenter)  

Experience with hybrid cloud environments  

Experience managing metrics gathering and reporting systems (Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB)  

Experience with Linux environments  

Believes in the power of test and process automation  

Deliberate and demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development and long-term code maintainability and supportability  

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

Relentless desire to automate and build software tools  

Have a customer-centric work approach to drive positive experiences for Tanium customers  

Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams  

Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a remote work setting  

Motivated self-starter 

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 $180,000 to $270,000 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.

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

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Source: Tanium careers (Greenhouse)

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