Protocol Developer
Location: Krakow, Poland (Hybrid)
Departments: QA Engineering
This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the Krakow Office (Fabryczna Street) a minimum of three days per week.
The Basics
Tanium Protocol Developers are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining communication protocols that enable secure, efficient, and reliable data exchange across the Tanium platform. This role involves close collaboration with software engineers, product managers, and security teams to ensure interoperability, scalability, and performance of networking and application-level protocols.
Strong technical skills in systems programming, networking, and security are essential. If you are excited about building the rules that allow systems to talk to each other at scale, optimizing data flows, and ensuring robust security in communication layers, Tanium could be your new home.
What you’ll do
- Design and implement new communication protocols and enhance existing ones
- Develop protocol specifications, documentation, and reference implementations
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate protocols into Tanium applications and services
- Conduct performance benchmarking, scalability testing, and optimization of protocol implementations
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and security best practices
- Debug and resolve interoperability issues across platforms and environments
- Contribute to open standards discussions and RFC reviews when applicable
About Tanium
Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, 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.
We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and 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.
Taking Care of Our Team Members
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.
We’re looking for someone with
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Experience
- 3+ years of experience in systems or network software development
- Strong proficiency in C, C++, or Rust (Python/Go a plus)
- Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, UDP, TLS, HTTP/2, QUIC, gRPC, etc.)
- Experience with protocol design, implementation, and debugging tools (Wireshark, tcpdump, etc.)
- Familiarity with cryptography, authentication, and certificate management
- Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems at the systems level
- Knowledge of distributed systems and cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, containers) is a plus
Nice to Have
- Contributions to open-source protocol libraries or standards bodies (IETF, W3C, etc.)
- Experience with performance profiling and optimization of network stacks
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus)
Other
- Always focused on doing what’s right for the business. High energy and contagious enthusiasm. Willing to take on the tough projects and challenges to grow the business. Creates an environment where others want to follow. Governs themselves with unquestionable ethics.
- Ability to be highly productive with little oversight from senior management.
- Sets goals and drives to their fulfillment. Takes responsibility for their actions and for outcomes related to their actions (or inactions). Wants to be held accountable for successes and failures. Shares the credit and takes the blame.
- Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to present technical content to general audiences.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and drive initiatives in a cross-functional environment.
