# Senior Software Engineer, AI Security

**Company**: Tanium
**Location**: Addison, TX (Hybrid)
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000 to $293,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

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## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- backend engineering
- security principles
- LLM integrations
- tool-calling frameworks
- Model Context Protocol
- retrieval-augmented generation
- data pipelines
- AI coding assistants
- agent tooling
- software development lifecycle
- requirements analysis
- design
- implementation
- testing
- deployment

### Nice to have
- cybersecurity
- SaaS
- enterprise software environment
- cloud infrastructure platforms
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- containerization
- orchestration technologies
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipelines
- automated testing frameworks

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