Engineering Manager

About the role

The Basics

As an Engineering Manager at Tanium, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of brilliant software engineers. As part of the Endpoint Team, you will work across the product portfolio with product managers, other engineering managers, the technical documentation team, and senior leadership to drive development of the foundational components at the heart of Tanium’s unified endpoint management and security platform.

What you’ll do

- Build exceptional teams of highly qualified and high-performance engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact

- Work closely with product managers, security engineers and other teams to define the vision and roadmap with a focus on the needs of Tanium’s customers

- Provide leadership, guidance and support while nurturing a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture

- Team with other managers to coordinate requirements, designs, dependencies, and opportunities for collaboration and process improvements

- Lead by example, leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure that the team consistently delivers outstanding results

- Work with senior engineering leaders to adjust the composition of the team and create new teams as necessary to respond to changing business needs

- Effectively manage multiple projects throughout the entire software development cycle

- Ensure delivery of dependable, supportable, scalable, and performant software that runs natively on customer assets in a wide variety of environments

- Lead a team of tenured, senior systems developers, removing roadblocks and ensuring they have what they need to get their job done in the most optimal way

We’re looking for someone with

Education

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience

Experience

- 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, preferably in an area of systems engineering

- 10+ years designing, developing, testing, and deploying software products

- Proven track record of architecting and delivering enterprise-level reliable and scalable solutions

- Demonstrable understanding of systems level concepts in Windows, Linux, and macOS

- A thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle

- Outside the box/first principles thinker who can come up with pragmatic solutions

- Keep up with industry trends and can assess and utilize new technologies to help solve problems

Other

- 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

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