Senior Security Engineer, Customer Transparency

📋 Job Overview

Tanium is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join the Customer Transparency team within the R&D Security organization, which protects the software and cloud services our customers depend on.

Tanium's customers secure some of the most consequential networks in the world and they extend us a great deal of trust. The Customer Transparency team is responsible for making Tanium's security posture something our customers can understand and act on, rather than something they have to blindly trust.

As a Senior Security Engineer on the Customer Transparency team, you will represent Tanium’s R&D Security organization to our external stakeholders. You will be responsible for our vulnerability disclosure program, developing a deep understanding of customers’ security needs, and taking action to drive these to resolution.

🏢 About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

🎯 The Role

As a Senior Security Engineer on the Customer Transparency team, you will represent Tanium’s R&D Security organization to our external stakeholders. You will be responsible for our vulnerability disclosure program, developing a deep understanding of customers’ security needs, and taking action to drive these to resolution.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain security tooling, leveraging AI where possible to streamline security processes
• Identify what customers can't see about their own Tanium deployment and partner with Engineering and Product stakeholders to close those gaps
• Oversee the SBOM and vulnerability management program and provide appropriate visibility to internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with Customers, Partners, and Tanium's Customer organization to learn what customers actually need, treat recurring questions as engineering problems, and build the systems that solve them
• Act as a security technical resource for customer-facing teams: answer inbound security inquiries and escalations, maintain a library of reusable answers, interface directly with customers when needed
• Administer Tanium's bug bounty program: triage inbound reports against SLA, assess the exploitability and severity of reported issues, adjudicate duplicates and out-of-scope submissions, recommend awards, and foster productive relationships with researchers
• Author and publish Tanium Security Advisories and CVE records, including CWE classification and CVSS scoring
• Coordinate disclosure timing and embargoes across researchers, customers, partners, and external coordinating bodies

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred
• Experience with product and application security, vulnerability research, or software engineering with a substantial security focus
• Experience interacting with customers and external security researchers
• Experience applying AI tooling to security work, with an informed view of where it helps and where it manufactures noise
• Experience building tools or data interfaces used by external stakeholders, including support and customers
• Experience with modern software engineering development and automation tools like git and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience determining the severity and exploitability of a vulnerability and their impact to the business

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Familiarity with SCA/SBOM tooling and third-party dependency vulnerability management
• Experience with coordinated vulnerability disclosure and the mechanics of CVE assignment, CVSS, and CWE; CNA operations experience
• Experience running, or substantially supporting, a bug bounty program or VDP
• Published vulnerability research, credited CVEs, bug bounty findings, open-source security tooling, or conference talks
• Working knowledge of Tanium’s products and services
• Strong understanding of applied cryptography, including encryption, hashing, and secure key management

🎁 Benefits

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $191,000 to $293,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of 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, and other well-being benefits.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories.