Senior Software Engineer, AI Security

Tanium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build a new AI Security solution that enables the world's largest enterprises to secure AI agents and the endpoints they run on.

In this full-stack role with a strong emphasis on backend engineering, you will design and develop high-scale, distributed systems that give customers visibility into and control over agentic AI across their environments.

The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of building reliable, performant services at scale, a strong foundation in security principles, and hands-on familiarity with the technologies that power AI agents and agent harnesses, such as LLM integrations, tool-calling frameworks, and the Model Context Protocol.

Essential Job Functions

• Design and develop high-scale, distributed backend systems that give customers visibility into and control over agentic AI across their environments
• Build services and integrations using LLM APIs, tool-calling frameworks, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and design retrieval (RAG) and data pipelines that support AI-driven capabilities
• Use AI coding assistants and agent tooling effectively in day-to-day development, and review, refactor, and debug AI-generated code with sound judgment
• Design and develop robust, scalable, and maintainable software features and systems across the full software development lifecycle
• Architect technical solutions that meet complex product requirements while balancing performance, reliability, and security considerations
• Collaborate with product management, UX, and peer engineers to define requirements, estimate effort, and deliver high-quality solutions on schedule
• Lead code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback to elevate engineering standards and promote best practices across the team
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software defects and performance bottlenecks in both development and production environments
• Mentor and support the growth of junior and mid-level engineers through knowledge sharing, pairing, and technical guidance
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, tooling, and development practices to increase team velocity and code quality
• Partner with security and infrastructure teams to ensure software is developed and deployed in alignment with Tanium's security and compliance standards

Minimum & Preferred Job Qualifications

• Education - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• Experience - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production-quality software
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing distributed systems or large-scale, high-availability applications
• Experience building and shipping AI-powered products or agents at scale, including LLM integrations and tool-calling
• Hands-on experience building a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server or integration that ran in a production environment
• Experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and the data pipelines that support it
• Experience building backend services and enterprise web applications that serve large user bases (for example, millions of users)
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment

Benefits

• Annual base salary range: $191,000 to $293,000
• 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