Senior Security Engineer, Customer Transparency

Tanium is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join the Customer Transparency team within the R&D Security organization.

As a Senior Security Engineer on the Customer Transparency team, you will represent Tanium’s R&D Security organization to external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain security tooling, leveraging AI where possible to streamline security processes
• Identify gaps in customers' Tanium deployments and partner with Engineering and Product stakeholders to close them
• Oversee the SBOM and vulnerability management program and provide visibility to internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with customers, partners, and Tanium's Customer organization to learn their security needs and build systems to solve them
• Act as a security technical resource for customer-facing teams: answer security inquiries and escalations, maintain a library of reusable answers, and interface directly with customers when needed
• Administer Tanium's bug bounty program: triage inbound reports, assess exploitability and severity, and recommend awards
• Author and publish Tanium Security Advisories and CVE records, including CWE classification and CVSS scoring
• Coordinate disclosure timing and embargoes across researchers, customers, partners, and external coordinating bodies

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred
• Experience with product and application security, vulnerability research, or software engineering with a substantial security focus
• Experience interacting with customers and external security researchers
• Experience applying AI tooling to security work
• Experience building tools or data interfaces used by external stakeholders
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with SCA/SBOM tooling and third-party dependency vulnerability management
• Experience with coordinated vulnerability disclosure and CVE assignment
• Experience running a bug bounty program or VDP
• Published vulnerability research, credited CVEs, bug bounty findings, open-source security tooling, or conference talks
• Working knowledge of Tanium’s products and services

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