Job Description

The Basics:

The Tanium Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering team member will be focused on data storage and access technologies. You will build and maintain best-of-breed products and infrastructure as part of a nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new product ideas are identified, our software engineers design, develop, test, and deploy the products and supporting services from the ground up, while iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input.

What you will do:

  • Architect and help build high-performance, secure, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable data platforms for use by Tanium’s products and services
  • Create automated unit tests, API tests, integration tests and ensure quality delivery
  • Work with existing persistent data stores, caches, messages buses, and other server-side technologies
  • Author technical documents and artifacts for developed software

    • We are looking for someone with:

    Education

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • CS Degree or related technical field preferred

    • Experience

  • Must be able to obtain Reliability status (RS) for Protected A, B, C at a minimum
  • 5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred
  • Experience building large cloud-based data services
  • Knowledge of at least one of Golang (preferred), C++, or Rust
  • Experience with PostgreSQL
  • Experience with API design and development
  • Experience with Azure or AWS Database Services
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines

    • Other

  • Demonstrates excellent 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 and address the root causes of those fires for the future
  • Has knowledge of a variety of modern backend software frameworks and the versatility to learn new tools and languages

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