# Senior Software Engineer, AI Security at Tanium

- Company: Tanium
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.tanium.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Addison, TX (Hybrid); Bellevue, WA (Hybrid); Durham, NC (Hybrid); Emeryville, CA (Hybrid)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $191K to $293K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tanium/jobs/8357200?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tanium-senior-software-engineer-ai-security/

## 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

Tags: Engineering - Shared Services

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tanium-senior-software-engineer-ai-security/