# Software Engineer II, 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: Mid level
- Location: Durham, NC (Hybrid)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $154K to $236K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tanium/jobs/8359784?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tanium-software-engineer-ii-ai-security/

## About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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
- Delivering higher level services enabled by our core services that directly enable our products and focus on everything from security to operations to auditing

Tags: Engineering - Shared Services

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