Senior Software Engineer – Backend Infrastructure

Tanium

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • North Carolina

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💰 $120,000 - $355,000 per year

Senior

CloudDockerGoJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactRubyRustTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Build and maintain best-of-breed products and infrastructure focused on cloud technologies
Design, develop, test, and deploy products and supporting services from the ground up
Iterate with product management and customers for feedback and input
Develop scalable, observable, high-performance backend services and APIs
Collaborate as part of a nimble development team within Platform Engineering
Support production environments and debug incidents under pressure
Contribute to automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
CS Degree preferred
U.S. citizenship/national/resident required for U.S. candidates (per 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
Proficiency in 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 balancing rapid development, long-term code maintainability and supportability
Believes in writing automated tests as part of development
Experienced debugger capable in production incident response
Knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and ability to learn new tools