Technical Writing Intern – Summer 2025

This is a hybrid position based out of Tanium's Addison, TX; Durham, NC; or Emeryville, CA office. 

The Basics:  

At Tanium, Technical Writing Interns gain valuable, real-world experience in creating user guides and other product documentation. You’ll be assigned a senior technical writing mentor, and you’ll work with our team directly on new content for Tanium products. During your internship you’ll create content that is delivered to Tanium’s customers and get feedback on how your content is received. Don't miss out on the opportunity to network with Tanium’s diverse engineering team!

Examples of the technical writing experience you will have at Tanium include:

• Learning how technical writers work with engineering, product management, and other teams to create world-class user guides and in-product help content
• Writing feature documentation to include in Tanium user guides
• Understanding Tanium’s technical writing tools and publishing processes
• Getting and providing feedback through peer editing
• Helping with information architecture projects

The hourly rate for this internship is $40-$45 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 a technical writing project with technical writer mentor.
• Experience first–hand creating documentation in a software security company – work in the real world on creating content based on new features that are going into Tanium products.
• Meet regularly with your 1-1 mentor.
• Produce a unique deliverable to put on your resume.
• Show off what you learned with 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.

 Required qualifications:  

• 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, technical communication, or a related degree program. GPA of 3.5 or above REQUIRED.
• Graduating Spring 2026 or Fall 2025.
• Coursework in computer science, web development, or XML structured authoring.
• Familiar with technical writing, user experience, and information architecture principles.
• Able to share writing samples or a project portfolio.
• 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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