Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security

Summary

Join Tanium as a Senior Cloud Cybersecurity (CCS) Software Development Engineer and collaborate with a team to build and automate Tanium Cloud's internal security systems. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and operating security systems to mitigate risks and threats. Responsibilities include building and operating security systems in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes, creating and deploying software to enhance internal tools, and working with other teams to create scalable solutions. You will also need to stay informed about the latest cloud-native technologies. This role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5-7 years of experience in developing systems for security data analysis, and 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience using Go. Additional experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud technologies is also required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Locality U.S. Candidates: In accordance with United States government customer requirements, applicants for this role must be a U.S. citizen, national, or resident pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) and 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)
• Cloud Software Development Engineering Experience
• 5-7 years of experience in developing systems and automation for gathering and analyzing security data to enhance and automate security processes
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle using Go, including code review, source control management, building, testing, and operational experience
• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code (i.e. Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation) and software development in cloud, containers, and serverless in Azure & AWS
• Engineering Experience
• Utilize robust analytical and problem-solving capabilities to confirm our hypotheses using precise data and in-depth root cause investigation
• Experience using high-level programming languages (Go) to produce security services, tools, and automations
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure as infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Pulumi, Helm)
• Experience in building metrics and observability for apps into Grafana and Prometheus
• Deliver high quality PRs daily using modern software engineering development and automation tools like Git and CI/CD pipelines (i.e. Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Other
• Deliver high-quality and efficient contributions by applying DevOps principles
• Relentless desire to automate the mundane to focus on solving the harder problems
• Experienced engineer 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

Responsibilities

• Build and operate Tanium Cloud's security systems in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes for detections, analysis, and automation as code using DevOps methodologies
• Create, develop, and deploy software to enhance the reliability, scalability, response time, efficiency, and security of our internal tools and services managed by Tanium Cloud
• Building security tools with Golang using DevOps application development practices (e.g. Git, JIRA, Kanban), testing (GoMock, testify) and deployment (e.g. GitHub Action Runners, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Possesses experience with various modern backend frameworks and adaptability to pick up new tools and languages
• Work together with the engineering, IT, and other security groups to create solutions that are expandable and adaptable Tanium Cloud
• Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work
• Stay informed about the latest design patterns, reliability methods, and scaling techniques for cloud-native systems, services, and technologies

Preferred Qualifications

Computer Science, or related technical field preferred

Benefits

• 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
• Other well-being benefits
• 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO)