Senior Software Engineer
As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer focused on Endpoint development in the Operational Technology (OT) space, you will build and maintain best-of-breed services that power products in a new and expanding space 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’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.
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
- Experience designing and building high-impact, high-performance, scalable, observable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
- Versatility in jumping between agent (C++) and OT Provider (Golang/Python)
- Experience with metrics driven development (Prometheus)
- Experience building data processing pipelines for real time data
- Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines
- Nice-to-have: domain experience working with the following OT technology stacks:
- Rockwell and Open DeviceNet Vendor Association (ODVA) Protocols: EtherNet/IP, DeviceNET, ControlNET
- Siemens and Sup Vendors Protocols: ProfinetA/B, Profibus
Other
- 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
- Experienced debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
- Has knowledge of a variety of modern backend software frameworks and the versatility to learn new tools
