Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

The job

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Job description

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.   

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

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
  • 5+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or SRE role  
  • 5+ years of experience managing cloud-based services with AWS, GCP or Azure (AWS preferred)  
  • 3+ years of 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. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate. 

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

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 $180,000 to $270,000 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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How Durham compares. Among the 100 largest places in North Carolina, Durham is #4 by population, #17 for college degrees (#1 = most), #25 for remote work (#1 = most), #31 for long commutes (#1 = fewest). Its county, Durham County, is #1 of 100 counties for average pay ($98,601).

The place in numbers

Durham has 291,467 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 2.7% of the population of North Carolina. It covers 119 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 2,453 people per square mile. The median age is 35.1, 10% younger than the state median (35.1 against 39.1).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,508 a month (rent plus utilities), 23% above the state median ($1,508 against $1,228). Over a year that is 22.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $392,800, which is 4.8 times the median household income ($81,619). 52.3% of households own their home, 21% below the state average (52.3% against 66.6%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metropolitan area has 344,020 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $60,720 a year, 19% above the national median ($60,720 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are healthcare practitioners and technical (36,330 jobs, median $82,090); office and administrative support (33,760 jobs, median $47,840); educational instruction and library (29,220 jobs, median $60,760). The area is most specialised in life, physical, and social science (4.1 times) and computer and mathematical (2.1 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($139,480) and computer and mathematical ($130,020). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Durham County was 2.8%. 69.1% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Durham County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 62.2% drive alone, 1.9% use public transit, 2.2% walk, 23.4% work from home. 8.6% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 38% below the state average (8.6% against 13.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

57.3% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 61% above the state share (57.3% against 35.6%). 15.4% of residents were born outside the United States, 70% above the state share (15.4% against 9.1%). The poverty rate is 11.7%, 10% below the state rate (11.7% against 13.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 80°F (26.7°C), and the coolest is Jan at 38°F (3.4°C). About 1,187 mm (47 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Aug is the wettest month (127 mm) and Jan the driest (72 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Chapel Hill (9 miles, rent 7% higher); Morrisville (10 miles, rent 23% higher); Carrboro (11 miles, similar rent); Hillsborough (13 miles, rent 9% lower). Rent differences are against Durham; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Distances

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