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Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

Tanium
Durham, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 6/17/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/15/2026
The Basics

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, you will be designing and managing systems, tools, and infrastructure to enable the entire engineering org to deliver code to our customers consistently, rapidly, safely, and reliably.

What You’ll Do

  • 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

We’re Looking For Someone With

Education

  • Bachelor's or equivalent experience
  • CS Degree preferred

Experience

  • 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, know where it's broken, and are open to trying new alternatives
  • 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
  • Deliberate and demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development and long-term code maintainability and supportability
  • Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
  • Relentless desire to automate and build software tools
  • Have a customer-centric work approach to drive positive experiences for Tanium customers
  • Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
  • Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a remote work setting
  • Motivated self-starter

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.

Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What You’ll Get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $154,000 to $236,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of 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, and other well-being benefits.

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.

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Salary : $154,000 - $236,000

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