2 days ago
Durham, NC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$154k - $236k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-scale distributed backend systems that provide visibility into and control over agentic AI environments.
- Build services and integrations using LLM APIs, tool-calling frameworks, Model Context Protocol, RAG, and supporting data pipelines.
- Develop and maintain Tanium products, common data services, time-series data systems, enterprise APIs, and GraphQL integrations.
- Design, develop, test, debug, refactor, and maintain product capabilities in collaboration with product management and an agile development team.
- Use AI coding assistants and agent tooling, reviewing and debugging generated code for quality, maintainability, and supportability.
- Deliver higher-level services supporting security, operations, auditing, dashboarding, reporting, and external partner integrations.
Requirements
- 3+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing and building high-impact, high-performance, scalable, observable, and maintainable backend services and APIs.
- Experience building and shipping AI-powered products or agents at scale, including LLM integrations and tool-calling.
- Production experience building a Model Context Protocol server or integration.
- Experience building retrieval-augmented generation systems and their supporting data pipelines.
- Experience building backend services and enterprise web applications for large user bases.
- Knowledge of at least one of Golang, Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Rust.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and other front-end technologies and frameworks.
- Experience working with relational databases such as Postgres, SQL, or MySQL and with HTTP API design and development.
- Experience with Git, Jenkins, automated testing, debugging production issues, and modern software engineering tools.
- Preferred foundation in security principles including secure design, authentication, authorization, and threat modeling.
- Ability to balance rapid development with long-term maintainability, learn new tools, and effectively review and refactor AI-generated code.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $154,000 to $236,000, plus equity awards.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans; family planning benefits; health savings and flexible spending accounts; and a transportation savings account.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident, disability, and business travel accident coverage.
- Employee assistance programs and other well-being benefits.
- Five days of volunteer time off annually.
- Full-time position; work arrangement and location details are not stated.
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About Tanium
Tanium builds an enterprise platform for unified endpoint management and security, combining real-time asset discovery, patching, vulnerability management, and EDR for IT and security teams. It sells subscriptions and services to large organizations that need fleet-wide visibility and control across Windows, macOS, Linux, and cloud endpoints. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, the privately held company reports securing over 32 million endpoints globally.