Tanium
Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research
$191K–$293K
Remote, US +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Remote, US
Durham, North Carolina, United States - Experience
- 5+ years industry experience; 7+ preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Research vulnerabilities in Tanium software and services, prioritize and validate findings, and drive fixes using security expertise and AI-enabled workflows.
What you'll do
- Select attack surfaces and bug classes for research; maintain threat models and build discovery tooling.
- Triage vulnerabilities by exploitability and impact, and provide patch guidance and working pull requests.
- Use frontier AI to evaluate and build agentic research workflows, while improving finding quality and reducing remediation time.
What they ask for
- Strong understanding of web and native application security.
- Hands-on vulnerability research 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.
Nice to have
- Experience applying frontier models to vulnerability research, reachability or exploitability analysis, native code security, or cloud platforms (AWS or Azure).
- Published vulnerability research, credited CVEs, bounty findings, open-source security tooling, conference talks, or strong understanding of applied cryptography.
Pay
$191,000 to $293,000 USD base salary
Tools
Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, AWS, Azure
AI focus
Evaluate frontier models and in-house and third-party tooling for vulnerability research, and build agentic workflows to accelerate discovery, triage, and remediation.
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