Back-End Web Developer

The Basics:

As a member of Tanium’s Brand and Corporate Marketing team, the Back-End Developer reports to the Web Architect to maintain legacy code and build out new features and functionality for Tanium websites.  The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in WordPress, as well as a deep understanding of Object-Oriented PHP and SQL. 

This is a hybrid position, which will require in person attendance several days each week in one of the following locations: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with a distributed team of front-end developers, content managers, and designers 
• Build new features and functionality for Tanium websites  
• Maintain and update existing components and libraries 
• Write secure, reusable code for WordPress and proprietary web architectures 
• Optimize legacy code for scalability and efficiency 
• Recognize, identify, and patch vulnerabilities in the code 

We’re looking for someone with:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience using PHP 
• With at least 3 years of WordPress back-end work 
• Practical experience with Object Oriented Programming 
• Significant database experience, preferably with MySQL 
• Functional knowledge of REST APIs 
• Thorough experience with Git 
• Preferred but not required: React, Regex, Gulp, XSS, SSRF, SQL Injection 

Core Competencies 

Tanium Competencies: 

• Demonstrates initiative and motivation 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills 
• Team player 
• Person of high ethics and integrity 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment 

Security & Privacy Roles & Responsibilities 

All roles at Tanium have access to Tanium Confidential Information, therefore, Tanium assigns a universal Position Risk Designation to all roles to hold everyone to the highest possible standard. All roles at Tanium are subject to the following requirements: 

• Protection of Tanium information and other assets 
• Compliance with Tanium policies and terms of applicable agreements with Tanium 

Work Requirements 

• Travel Requirements: 0-10% 
• Mental Abilities 
  • Analytical abilities: ability to analyze problem situations in depth; ability to show a probing mind. 
  • Number facility: the individual must be able to perform basic mathematical calculations at a minimum. 
  • Precision to detail: it is necessary that the individual be precise, detail-oriented, and exact. 
  • Flexibility: the ability to juggle several projects simultaneously, to cope successfully with diversity and complexity, to integrate seemingly unrelated data, and to reduce complex notions into relatively simple terms. 
  • Written and oral communication skills: ability to write memos, letters, and reports in clear, concise fashion with appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; ability to communicate effectively with superiors, peers, subordinates, and others on a one-on-one basis, using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; includes clarity, organization of thought, and expressiveness are all part of this dimension.  
  • Management skills: ability to achieve results through subordinates; ability to successfully recruit, conduct selection interviews, place people, give clear direction, train, develop people for promotion, build cohesive and effective teams, monitor performance thoroughly, give constructive and ongoing performance feedback, conduct annual performance appraisals 
• Physical & Mental Abilities and Demands 
  • Use of Fingers/Hands: Typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling. 
  • Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.  Those activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. 
  • Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machine parts. 
  • Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. 
  • Vision: The incumbent is required to distinguish between true colors, perceive depth, and partial field of vision is required at a minimum for the position. 
• Work Environment 
  • The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. 

About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its 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.   

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $70,000 to $215,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of 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, and other well-being benefits.

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