Description
The Basics
Tanium is looking for a passionate Threat Hunter to join our rapidly growing team of intrusion analysts tasked with defending Tanium customers and understanding their adversaries. As part of our team, you will bring with you your experience in cybersecurity and threat intelligence to help grow and shape threat hunting at Tanium.
Summary/Objectives
This role delivers expert‑level threat operations support by strengthening customer incident response readiness, performing hands‑on threat hunting, and enhancing detection and visibility across enterprise environments. It partners directly with customers in a hands‑on‑keyboard capacity to operationalize Tanium, build API‑based integrations, and drive meaningful security improvements. The objective is to elevate customer maturity to a proactive security strategy by combining technical depth, product expertise, and close collaboration with internal teams to address emerging threats and evolving operational needs.
Essential Job Functions
- Strengthen customer incident response readiness, assist with remediation planning, and augment response capabilities during incidents to improve overall security maturity and readiness of customers
- Perform hands‑on threat hunting with customers, executing the full hunting lifecycle to detect, investigate, and reduce emerging threats
- Provide expert deployment and enablement of Tanium Security Operations solutions tailored to each customer’s unique use cases
- Conduct threat intelligence analysis, build and refine detections, and tune intel with customers to enhance threat visibility and response
- Work side‑by‑side with customers in a hands‑on‑keyboard capacity to guide, support, and maximize the effectiveness of the Tanium Platform
- Collaborate closely with internal product teams, providing customer‑driven feedback and hands‑on insights to shape and enhance the Tanium Platform
- Build API‑driven integrations with third‑party tools and create custom Tanium hunts using the API to baseline and enhance customer threat visibility and capability
- Partner with internal teams to research emerging security challenges—such as AI, container and cloud security, and OT—to inform customer guidance and platform improvements
Minimum & Preferred Job Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, threat hunting, or related defensive security roles
- Hands‑on experience performing threat hunting, detection analysis, and investigation work across enterprise environments
- Strong knowledge of incident response processes, including scoping, containment, remediation planning, and post‑incident improvements
- Experience with security platforms such as EDR, SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence platforms, or similar technologies
- Direct customer‑facing experience, providing security guidance, technical support, or operational enablement
- Proficiency with scripting or API usage (e.g., Python, PowerShell, REST APIs) for integrations and data‑driven investigations
- Understanding threat intelligence concepts, detection engineering principles, and threat visibility best practices.
- Ability to collaborate cross‑functionally with product, engineering, and security teams to translate customer needs into actionable improvements
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to varied audiences.
- Language skills; Native-level fluency in Japanese and business-level proficiency in English are both required.
About Tanium
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.
As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, 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.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
Taking care of our team members
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.
Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an applicatio
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