Software Engineer II, AI Security

Tanium · Durham, NC · $154,000 to $236,000 · hybrid Tanium is seeking a Software Engineer II 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. Responsibilities Contribute to the design and development of 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 Build and maintain Tanium's products alongside an agile development team Design, develop and test new product ideas from the ground up while working with product management for feedback and input Work on small teams that tackle big challenges in common components like a common data service tasked with unifying and consolidating endpoint data across the entire ecosystem, handling time series data that drive dashboarding and reporting, and exposing data externally through GraphQL enabling partners to easily integrate Delivering higher level services enabled by our core services that directly enable our products and focus on everything from security to operations to auditing Requirements Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred, or equivalent experience 3+ years of industry software engineering experience Experience designing and building high-impact, high-performance, scalable, observable, and maintainable backend services and APIs 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 Knowledge of at least one of Golang, Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Rust Experience with React, Typescript, Javascript, and other front-end technologies and frameworks Ability to work with relational databases such as Postgres, SQL, or MySQL Experience with HTTP API design and development Experience with modern software engineering and automation tools such as Git and Jenkins Benefits Annual base salary range: $154,000 to $236,000 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 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO)