IT Security Engineer
Tanium · Addison, TX (Hybrid) | Bellevue, WA (Hybrid) | Durham, NC (Hybrid) | Emeryville, CA (Hybrid) · IT Security
About this role
Tanium is hiring a mid-level Security Engineer based in Addison, TX (Hybrid) | Bellevue, WA (Hybrid) | Durham, NC (Hybrid) | Emeryville, CA (Hybrid) (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with Python, AWS, GCP, Azure. Compensation is listed at $113,000–$173,000 per year.
- Role
- Security Engineer
- Function
- security
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Addison, TX (Hybrid) | Bellevue, WA (Hybrid) | Durham, NC (Hybrid) | Emeryville, CA (Hybrid)
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Department
- IT Security
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Job description
from Tanium careersThe Basics
The Security Engineer will collaborate with Security, IT, and Engineering teams to defend and strengthen our security operations posture. You will be an integral part of the IT Security Engineering Team, responsible for owning and operating our SOAR and SIEM platforms, driving endpoint security initiatives, and building the automation and processes needed to detect, respond to, and remediate threats across the environment.
What you'll do
- Contribute to and maintain our in-house SOAR platform — develop automation playbooks, extend capabilities, and accelerate incident response
- Contribute to the aggressive adoption of AI tools within the Security team as well the protection of AI technologies across Tanium
- Manage and optimize our SIEM environment — maintain data ingestion pipelines, ensure log source coverage meets security requirements, and partner with detection engineering on deployment and tuning
- Support endpoint security tooling — deploy, configure, and troubleshoot endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions across the fleet
- Review IT infrastructure changes for security implications, ensuring new configurations and deployments align with security standards and best practices
- Partner with IT and infrastructure teams to onboard new log sources, improve telemetry, and close visibility gaps
- Contribute to incident response processes, including containment, eradication, and post-incident review
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