Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Full Stack

Tanium

Senior Software Engineer at Tanium building and maintaining backend services. Collaborating in a hybrid team to manage internal service certificates and ensure system stability.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeAddison • North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $191,000 - $293,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerGoJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactRubyRustTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain best-of-breed products as part of a nimble development team
Be a part of a team that is building out a new service that manages all the certificates for our internal services

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
CS Degree preferred
Must be eligible to obtain the FedRAMP security clearance at a minimum
Proficient with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot)
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 React, Javascript, or typescript
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and other infrastructure technology
Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git 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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Other well-being benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangNode.jsPythonRubyRustJavaReactJavascriptTypescriptKubernetes

Soft Skills

sound judgmentrapid developmentlong-term code maintainabilitysupportabilityautomated testingdebugging under pressure

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeFedRAMP security clearance