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Tanium

Technical Support Engineer

Tanium
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hybrid mid full-time Nagoya, Japan (Hybrid); Osaka, Japan (Hybrid); Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)

First indexed 18 Jun 2026

Description

This position requires Japanese fluency.

At Tanium, our Support Engineers play a crucial role in serving our customers by resolving technical issues and answering technical questions in a timely manner. With a primary focus on customer satisfaction, Support Engineers work both reactively and proactively to improve the overall experience of our enterprise customers when using Tanium.

As a Support Engineer, you'll have continuous opportunities to apply your best technical skills while building new skills ranging from scripting to debugging.

What You'll Do:

  • Assist customers by triaging inbound support cases, solving customer support cases, and working with other Support Engineers to assist with their assigned cases
  • Answer customer questions in the Tanium community site
  • Improve customer experience by documenting best practices, tracking activity, documenting root cause, and reporting
  • Serve as a technical subject matter expert, focusing mostly on the testing and troubleshooting aspects of the area
  • Test Tanium and provide feedback to the Engineering teams on how to improve the overall customer experience

We're Looking For:

Education
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience required
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or similar experience a plus
Experience and Skills
Must Haves:
  • 3+ years of experience in a technical field with solid technical skills in one or more areas of networking, security, operations, scripting, and/or programming
  • Ability to master new concepts and technologies; continually striving to master the Tanium platform and modules
  • Problem-solving skills; can break problems down into manageable, ordered piece parts and successfully convey the problem statement and plan to others
  • Aptitude for comprehending complex troubleshooting
  • Good judgment; understand the importance of weighing cost and value in decision making and practice making good judgment calls with improved consistency over time
  • Independent; should be able to independently work on problems; should be able to complete tasks with limited assistance; participate in projects and follow technical support procedures only requiring help on more complex enterprise initiatives or issues
Good to Have:
  • Prior experience and breadth of knowledge needed to support customers
  • Hands-on Tanium experience
  • Relevant technical certifications (Google IT Support Professional Certificate, CISSP, MCSE, A+/Security+/Network+ combined, etc.)
  • Experience in one or more of the following technical domains: Endpoint Security, Endpoint Support/Troubleshooting, Incident Response, Systems Management, Utility Scripting (bash, PowerShell, VBScript, Python)

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.

Taking care of our team members

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.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tanium/jobs/7642521