Senior Software Engineer - Backend Infrastructure

Tanium

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • North Carolina, Washington

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💰 $120,000 - $355,000 per year

Senior

CloudDockerGoJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactRubyRustTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focused on developing cloud technologies and backend infrastructure for Tanium
Build and maintain best-of-breed products and infrastructure as part of a nimble development team
Design, develop, test, and deploy products and supporting services from the ground up
Iterate with product management and customers for feedback and input
Ensure services are high-performance, scalable, observable, and maintainable
Participate in production debugging and incident response
Use and improve tooling and automation for development and deployment (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes)

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
CS Degree preferred
U.S. Candidates: In accordance with United States government customer requirements, applicants for this role must be a U.S. citizen, national, or resident pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) and 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)
5+ years industry experience
Experience 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 Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and other infrastructure technology
Experience with React, Javascript, or typescript desired
Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins
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
Experienced debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to learn new tools