Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes Appliance

The Basics

As a Tanium Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes Appliance, you will be tasked with building and maintaining best-of-breed products as part of a small and nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new products ideas are identified, our software engineers are responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying the products from the ground up, while continuously iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain Tanium Appliance, a customized Linux operating system running on bare metal, that hosts Tanium software in on-prem and cloud customer environments
• Design and implement a framework for running and managing Kubernetes containers on an array of these appliances
• Work as part of a fast-paced agile development team with a deep commitment towards a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning
• Design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input

We’re looking for someone with

• Education
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • CS Degree or related technical field preferred
• Experience
  • 4-7+ years industry experience
  • Intimate familiarity with Linux and shell scripting and prior programming experience with a compiled language (preferably Golang)
  • Prior experience of working with Kubernetes and associated container deployment technologies
  • Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git, GHA and Jenkins
  • Experience designing and building high-performance, secure, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable backend services and APIs
• Other
  • Demonstrate sound judgment for balancing between rapid development and long-term code maintainability and supportability
  • Apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills – being able to learn what the requirements are and apply them
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
  • Commitment to writing automated tests as an integral part of the development process
  • Knowledge of a variety of modern backend software frameworks and the versatility to learn new tools and language

About Tanium

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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.

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