Senior DevOps engineer who designs and runs the CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and monitoring that let Tanium's whole engineering org ship code fast and reliably. Core stack: AWS/GCP/Azure, Terraform/Pulumi, Docker/Kubernetes, Go, Linux, Grafana/Prometheus; hybrid office 3 days/week.
Compensation
$180K–$270K / yr
Location
Durham, NC (Hybrid); Reston, VA (Hybrid)
Work setup
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Employment
Full time
Experience
3+ years
Category
Devops
Posted
Skills
agentic-ai
ansible
api
automation
aws
azure
ci-cd
cloud
cloud-native
devops
docker
gcp
git
github
github-actions
grafana
influxdb
infrastructure-as-code
jira
kubernetes
linux
microservices
networking
prometheus
pulumi
puppet
sre
terraform
virtualization
vmware
Must have
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or SRE role
5+ years managing cloud-based services with AWS, GCP or Azure (AWS preferred)
3+ years of Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi or Terraform (Pulumi preferred)
3+ years of Docker/Kubernetes experience in a production environment
Deep understanding of networking; ability to build and maintain complex networks
3+ years writing software that utilizes 3rd party APIs (Go preferred)
Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or another config management suite
Experience with modern 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
Skilled debugger who can handle production incidents under pressure
Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and remote work settings
Nice to have
CS degree
Full 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)
Senior Software Engineer, DevOps at Tanium (Durham, NC (Hybrid); Reston, VA (Hybrid)) — aijobsearch
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 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.
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