Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Tanium

Senior Software Engineer, DevOps at Tanium designing systems and managing infrastructure for code delivery. Collaborating with engineering teams to develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and critical applications.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeDurham • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $154,000 - $236,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureChefCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesPrometheusPuppetTerraformVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

designing and managing systems, tools, and infrastructure to enable the entire engineering org to deliver code to our customers consistently, rapidly, safely, and reliably
Work alongside a cross-functional engineering team to develop the next generation pipeline to build, release, and test Tanium products and services
Support existing efforts to deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
Work with product security teams to build tools to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities
Design systems that effectively monitor critical infrastructure, plan for future needs, and rapidly respond to incidents
Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
Plan, execute, and support scheduled major improvements to our infrastructure

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's or equivalent experience
CS Degree preferred
Five years of experience in software development, DevOps, or SRE role
Five years of experience managing cloud-based services with AWS, GCP or Azure (AWS preferred)
3+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi or Terraform (Pulumi preferred)
3+ years of Docker/Kubernetes experience in production environment
Deep understanding of networking, with the ability to build and maintain complex networks
3+ years of experience writing software that utilizes 3rd party APIs (go preferred)
Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or another config management suite
Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools (Git, GitHub Actions, JIRA)
Experience with virtualization technologies (VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, vCenter)
Experience with hybrid cloud environments
Experience managing metrics gathering and reporting systems (Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB)
Experience with Linux environments
Believes in the power of test and process automation
Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
Relentless desire to automate and build software tools
Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a remote work setting
Motivated self-starter

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

software developmentDevOpsSREcloud-based servicesInfrastructure as CodeDockerKubernetesnetworking3rd party APIstest automation

Soft Skills

cross-functional teamworkremote work efficiencyself-starterproblem-solving under pressuredesire to automate

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeCS degree