Product Security Intern

The Basics: 

At Tanium, our Product Security Intern will have the opportunity to gain valuable, real-world experience in securing business to business security focused applications. Working with a mentor in our product security team you’ll select a project from a library of prototype, internal tool, and penetration testing projects vetted by our mentors. While being supported by your 1-1 mentor and working with our engineers, you’ll deliver your project throughout the course of the internship and present your work to Tanium’s R&D team at the end.  

What you’ll do:  

• Experience first-hand product security at a cybersecurity software company  
• Contribute as a valued member of our product security team with mentor support and training 

• Deliver a well-defined project that will help improve the security of our customers at Tanium 
• Build a strong network and show off what you’ve built to our entire R&D team 
• Have a great time while doing it! Tanium’s a fun place to work, we think you’ll like it here :) 

Examples of possible projects include:  

• Security review (manual penetration test and source code review) of a new product  

• Implementation of new static code analysis rules specific to Tanium’s code base  
• Research and implement new defense-in-depth controls against supply chain attacks 

We’re looking for someone with:   

• Availability to work full-time from June 12, 2023 – August 18, 2023. 
• Full-time student currently enrolled in a college or university, or recent graduate of a cybersecurity bootcamp program 

• December 2023 or Spring 2024 graduates preferred 
• Some cybersecurity experience, especially in penetration testing 
• GPA of 3.5 or above REQUIRED. 
• Clear passion for working with product application security 

Other helpful experience you may have: 

• Being fully authorized to work in the U.S. now and the future is preferred; however, visa sponsorship is possible for qualified candidates. 
• Prior related internship experience 
• Experience with BurpSuite 

All our intern positions are paid a full-time hourly wage for the duration of our summer internship program. 

About Tanium 

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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.