Software Engineer II, Backend

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, 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. 

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.   

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