Senior Security Engineer – Vulnerability Research

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $191k - $293k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Tanium

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

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Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Tanium is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing real-time endpoint visibility and control for large organizations. By delivering insights on security, performance, and inventory across IT assets, Tanium helps businesses manage their infrastructure efficiently and protect against cyber threats.

📋 Description

• Decide which attack surfaces and bug classes to target and build capabilities to discover new vulnerabilities • Triage newly discovered vulnerabilities, ranking them by exploitability and business impact • Provide engineering with patch guidance and working pull requests alongside vulnerability reports • Maintain a threat model of Tanium software and services • Drive vulnerability research using frontier AI capabilities, in-house and third-party tooling, and agentic workflows • Build and maintain vulnerability research tooling, including AI skills, fuzzing harnesses, and static and dynamic analyzers • Reduce detection-to-remediation time by lowering false positives and improving finding quality • Perform source code reviews and targeted security assessments of high-risk components

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience • 5+ years industry experience (7+ preferred) • Strong understanding of web and native application security • Hands-on vulnerability research experience via source code review, manual application penetration testing, or fuzzing • Expertise in determining 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 • Experience applying frontier models to vulnerability research • Experience with reachability or exploitability analysis • Experience with native code security (C/C++) in privileged or agent-based software • Experience with cloud platforms; AWS or Azure preferred • Published vulnerability research, credited CVEs, bounty findings, open-source security tooling, or conference talks • Strong understanding of applied cryptography, including encryption, hashing, and secure key management

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards • 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 • Other well-being benefits • 5 days of volunteer time off (VTO)