Software Engineer Intern

The Basics:

At Tanium, Software Engineering Interns have the opportunity to gain valuable, real-world experience in building B2B security focused applications. Assigned a senior engineer mentor and a peer intern buddy, you’ll work with our team directly on new features for the next release of Tanium’s platform. During your internship you’ll build features that are delivered to Tanium’s customers, and get feedback on how your features are received. Don't miss out on the opportunity to network with your peer interns and build a community with Tanium’s diverse group of developers!   

Examples of prior intern projects include:  

• A visualization tool for Tanium’s privileges and roles  
• Question prediction for Tanium’s natural language parser  
• A node.js module for presenting application health  

The position can be located anywhere in the continental United States. 

The hourly rate for this internship is $60. This hourly rate is an estimate for what Tanium will pay an intern. The actual rate offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, education, skills, training, and experience. In addition to an hourly rate, interns will be eligible for 401k matching and a monthly allowance for communications reimbursement. 

What you'll do:

• Be assigned to either a frontend or backend team, depending on your ranked preference / our available projects.  
• Experience first–hand engineering in a software security company – work in the real world on frameworks and new features for our product.  
• Meet regularly with your 1-1 mentor.  
• Produce a unique deliverable to put on your resume. 
• Show off what you’ve built to our entire team at the end of your internship – get great exposure to engineering leadership!  
• Participate in intern events and network with our wider internship cohort of 70+ interns. 

We are looking for someone who is:

• Authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future
• Available to work full-time from June 10, 2024 to August 16, 2024
• A currently enrolled Bachelors degree candidate, in computer science or a related degree program. GPA of 3.5 or above REQUIRED
• Graduating Spring 2025 or Fall 2024  
• Experienced in creating and finishing software development projects in backend and/or frontend languages
• Excited and driven to learn new technical skills
• Passionate about technology, software, and figuring out how things work
• A great communicator and can collaborate with a team as well as work independently  

Past internship helpful but not required. 

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. 

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. Interns and other Tanium contractors are eligible for VTO after 90 days of employment. 

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