Tanium is a unified endpoint management and security platform: agentic AI for real-time visibility, patching, and risk remediation across endpoints. Backed by a16z and IVP.
About the role
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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 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
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Summary/Objectives
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. This is an opportunity to shape a product at the forefront of AI security and make a significant impact at a company dedicated to transforming how organizations manage and secure their technology environments.
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,...
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