Software Engineering Intern

The Basics:

At Tanium, Software Engineering Interns have the opportunity to gain valuable, real-world experience in building B2B security focused applications. Assigned a senior engineer mentor and a peer intern buddy, you’ll work with our team directly on new features for the next release of Tanium’s platform. During your internship you’ll build features that are delivered to Tanium’s customers, and get feedback on how your features are received. Don't miss out on the opportunity to network with your peer interns and build a community with Tanium’s diverse group of developers!

Examples of prior intern projects include:

• A visualization tool for Tanium’s privileges and roles
• Question prediction for Tanium’s natural language parser
• A node.js module for presenting application health

This is a hybrid position based out of Tanium's Durham, NC office.

The hourly rate for this internship is $55 per hour. This hourly rate is an estimate for what Tanium will pay an intern. The actual rate offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, education, skills, training, and experience. In addition to an hourly rate, interns will be eligible for a housing stipend, 401k matching, and a monthly allowance for communications reimbursement.

What you'll do:

• Be assigned to either a frontend or backend team, depending on your ranked preference / our available projects.
• Experience first–hand engineering in a software security company – work in the real world on frameworks and new features for our product.
• Meet regularly with your 1-1 mentor.
• Produce a unique deliverable to put on your resume.
• Show off what you’ve built to our entire team at the end of your internship – get great exposure to engineering leadership!
• Participate in intern events and network with our wider internship cohort of 70+ interns.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future
• Available to work full-time from June 9, 2025 to August 15, 2025
• A currently enrolled Bachelor's degree candidate, in computer science or a related degree program. GPA of 3.5 or above REQUIRED
• Graduating Spring 2026 or Fall 2025
• Experienced in creating and finishing software development projects in backend and/or frontend languages
• Excited and driven to learn new technical skills
• Passionate about technology, software, and figuring out how things work
• A great communicator and can collaborate with a team as well as work independently

Past internship helpful but not required.

About Tanium

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its converged endpoint management (XEM) platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most. Interns and other Tanium contractors are eligible for VTO after 90 days of employment.

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