
Threat Hunter
Tanium
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Addison • California • North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $95,000 - $280,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Strengthen customer incident response readiness, assist with remediation planning, and augment response capabilities during incidents to improve overall security maturity and readiness of customers
- Perform hands‑on threat hunting with customers, executing the full hunting lifecycle to detect, investigate, and reduce emerging threats
- Provide expert deployment and enablement of Tanium Security Operations solutions tailored to each customer’s unique use cases
- Conduct threat intelligence analysis, build and refine detections, and tune intel with customers to enhance threat visibility and response
- Work side‑by‑side with customers in a hands‑on‑keyboard capacity to guide, support, and maximize the effectiveness of the Tanium Platform
- Collaborate closely with internal product teams, providing customer‑driven feedback and hands‑on insights to shape and enhance the Tanium Platform
- Build API‑driven integrations with third‑party tools and create custom Tanium hunts using the API to baseline and enhance customer threat visibility and capability
- Partner with internal teams to research emerging security challenges—such as AI, container and cloud security, and OT—to inform customer guidance and platform improvements
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, threat hunting, or related defensive security roles
- Hands‑on experience performing threat hunting, detection analysis, and investigation work across enterprise environments
- Strong knowledge of incident response processes, including scoping, containment, remediation planning, and post‑incident improvements
- Experience with security platforms such as EDR, SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence platforms, or similar technologies
- Direct customer‑facing experience, providing security guidance, technical support, or operational enablement
- Proficiency with scripting or API usage (e.g., Python, PowerShell, REST APIs) for integrations and data‑driven investigations
- Understanding threat intelligence concepts, detection engineering principles, and threat visibility best practices.
- Ability to collaborate cross‑functionally with product, engineering, and security teams to translate customer needs into actionable improvements
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to varied audiences.
Benefits
- equity awards
- 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
- wellness benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cybersecurity operationsincident responsethreat huntingdetection analysisremediation planningscriptingAPI usagethreat intelligence analysisdetection engineeringcloud security
Soft Skills
customer-facing experiencestrong communication skillscollaborationtechnical supportoperational enablementguidancesupportcross-functional collaborationcustomer-driven feedbackexplanation of complex topics