Software Engineer II - Cloud

About the position

As a Tanium Software Engineer II focused on Cloud technologies, you will build and maintain best-of-breed products and infrastructure 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. This is a hybrid position, which will require in person attendance several days each week in Durham, NC.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Tanium's Kubernetes Helm charts and infrastructure using Terraform
• Build and maintain software stacks with Go.lang
• Build and maintain Tanium's cloud infrastructure platform and services as part of an Agile development team
• Create automated unit tests, API tests, integration tests and ensure quality delivery
• Author technical documents and artifacts for developed software
• Work with persistent data stores, caches, messages buses, and other server-side technology

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years industry experience
• Strong working knowledge of at least one of: Go.lang, Terraform, or Scripting Languages
• Experience with API design and development
• Experience with Azure or AWS
• Experience with containers and microservices
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like Git and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Experience with container orchestration solutions (preferably Kubernetes)

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrates excellent 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 and address the root causes of those fires for the future
• Has knowledge of a variety of modern backend software frameworks and the versatility to learn new tools and languages

Benefits

• Annual base salary range of $100,000 to $295,000
• Equity awards
• 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)