Senior Security Engineer (Customer Transparency)

Join Tanium, a leading cybersecurity company, as a Senior Security Engineer on the Customer Transparency team. In this role, you will represent Tanium's R&D Security organization to external stakeholders, oversee the vulnerability disclosure program, and collaborate with customers and partners to address their security needs. You will also administer Tanium's bug bounty program, author security advisories, and coordinate disclosure timing. This position offers a generous benefits package, including equity awards, flexible spending accounts, and a 401(k) retirement savings plan.

• Represent Tanium’s R&D Security organization to external stakeholders, overseeing the vulnerability disclosure program and driving resolution of security needs.
• Build and maintain security tooling, leveraging AI to streamline security processes, and identify gaps in customer visibility regarding their Tanium deployment.
• Administer Tanium's bug bounty program, triaging inbound reports, assessing exploitability and severity, and fostering relationships with researchers.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience
• Experience applying AI tooling to security work, with an informed view of where it helps and where it manufactures noise
• 5+ years industry experience, 7+ preferred
• Experience determining the severity and exploitability of a vulnerability and their impact to the business
• Experience interacting with customers and external security researchers
• Experience with product and application security, vulnerability research, or software engineering with a substantial security focus
• 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
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Team player
• Person of high ethics and integrity
• Demonstrates initiative and motivation
• 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
• Strong understanding of applied cryptography, including encryption, hashing, and secure key management
• Experience with coordinated vulnerability disclosure and the mechanics of CVE assignment, CVSS, and CWE; CNA operations experience
• Working knowledge of Tanium’s products and services
• Familiarity with SCA/SBOM tooling and third-party dependency vulnerability management