Content Author

The Basics:  
 

The mission of the Content Author is to develop and support Tanium solutions, as defined by our Product teams at Tanium, through the creation, maintenance and curation of content that enables specific functionality or core, cross-cutting capabilities within these solutions. This individual is an expert in the Tanium platform, one or many of the endpoint operating systems supported by the Tanium platform, and the relevant development languages used by Tanium in its content.  

What you'll do:  

At the highest level the goals of the Content Author are to:  

• Maintain and Enhance the Core Content solutions.  
• Partner with the Security and Product Design Research (SPDR) team in creation and maintenance of emergent content.  
• Assist product in content needs for products.  
• Help lower the barrier to entry for customers, partners, and employees for creating content by establishing and maintaining standards for content at Tanium.  

While not developing products or services, this role is critical to keeping the Tanium platforms chief user function in healthy working order by maintaining the sensors, and packages our customers depend on to get the correct answers they seek in real time, while creating paths that further enable the creation of customer-specific content for their own in-house requirements. 

To maintain content as defined by Product and Engineering. Examples of “content” as defined today:   

• Core Content projects 
• Core Content, Default Content, Core Python, Enhanced Tags, AD Query, Forefront, MSSQL, SCCM, SSL/TLS Server Audit, EICAR, and Client hardening 
• SPDR and Emerging Issues sensors and packages 

We’re looking for someone with:  
 

Education  

• BA/BS degree from a leading undergraduate institution or comparable experience 

Experience  

• 10+ years' experience in technical positions  
• 10+ years' experience in endpoint operations or security  
• Demonstrated patience and ability to work well with a highly diverse group of individuals  
• Known reputation for being respected and respectful with regards to interactions with customers and Engineering/product teams at all levels  
• Data-driven and operationally minded  
• Rapid resource allocation/cross-leveling abilities  
• Proven ability to translate content needs into working solutions  
• Exceptional skills developing in one or many of the following languages used in content at Tanium:   
• Python  
• PowerShell 
• C# and .Net 
• VBScript  
• Bash  
• Demonstrates initiative, motivation, dependability, and positive attitude  
• Naturally team-oriented with a mission first attitude  
• Willingness to always go above and beyond for their customers 

About Tanium  

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), is the reference platform of choice to manage complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every endpoint from cyber threats by integrating workflows across IT, Risk, Compliance, and Security into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, real-time remediation, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for eight consecutive years and ranks for the second consecutive year on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. Armed Forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s 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 $150,000 to $260,000. 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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