Software Engineer II - Cloud

Tanium

full-time

Posted on: 8/20/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • North Carolina

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💰 $100,000 - $295,000 per year

JuniorMid-Level

AWSCloudGoGraphQLJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsReactRustTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Build and maintain Tanium's cloud products and services as part of an agile development team
Implement intuitive front ends for customer-facing and internal applications
Build backend microservices with well-defined API’s
Work with persistent data stores, caches, messages buses, and other server-side technology
Create automated unit tests, API tests, integration tests and ensure quality delivery
Author technical documents and artifacts for developed software

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; CS Degree preferred
Experience: 2+ years industry experience
Experience building high-impact, high-performance, secure, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
Significant knowledge of at least one of the following: Golang or JavaScript/TypeScript (preferred), Node.js, Java, or Rust
Experience with React or similar front-end technologies
Experience with HTTP API design and development including REST and/or GraphQL
Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines
Experience with containers and microservices is a plus
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) a plus
Experience with container orchestration solutions (Kubernetes, Nomad, Mesos) a plus
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
Comfortable debugging yours and others’ code in production environments
Has knowledge of a variety of modern backend software frameworks and the versatility to learn new tools and languages