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Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research

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Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research in USA

  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Select attack surfaces and vulnerability classes for research and build capabilities to discover new vulnerabilities.
  • Triage vulnerabilities and rank them by exploitability and business impact.
  • Provide high-quality remediation guidance and working pull requests to engineering teams.
  • Maintain threat models for Tanium software and services.
  • Evaluate frontier AI capabilities and build agentic workflows for vulnerability research.
  • Build and maintain AI skills, fuzzing harnesses, and static and dynamic analyzers.
  • Reduce false positives and improve finding quality to shorten detection-to-remediation time.
  • Perform source-code reviews and targeted security assessments of high-risk components.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another relevant field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of industry experience; 7 or more years preferred.
  • Strong understanding of web and native application security.
  • Hands-on vulnerability research experience through source-code review, manual application penetration testing, or fuzzing.
  • Expertise assessing vulnerability severity, exploitability, and business impact.
  • Ability to read and write code in at least one of Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Python.
  • Experience developing, building, and shipping secure code.
  • Preferred experience with frontier models, reachability or exploitability analysis, native-code security, AWS or Azure, published vulnerability research, and applied cryptography.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $191,000 to $293,000, plus equity awards and a benefits package.
  • Medical, dental, vision, family planning, health savings, flexible spending, transportation savings, 401(k) with company match, life, accident, disability, business travel accident, employee assistance, and other well-being benefits.
  • Five days of volunteer time off are provided annually.
  • The position is full-time; no remote or office arrangement is specified.

Salary: $191k - $293k/yr

Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable. Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and securit...

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