The Basics:
At Tanium, Cloud Cybersecurity Interns have the opportunity to gain valuable, real-world experience in securing business to business security focused applications. Working with a mentor in our Cloud Cybersecurity team you’ll select a project vetted by our mentors.
While being supported by your 1-1 mentor and working with our engineers, you’ll deliver your project throughout the course of the internship and present your work to Tanium’s R&D team at the end.
Examples of projects include:
- Implementation of security detective and preventive controls to be used as part of Tanium Cloud’s Security operations
- Implementation of DevOps security tools that provide detailed security context and recommendations associated with deployed Cloud resources
- Identification and processing of security operations data to create new, or improve existing, dashboards and monitoring used by the Cloud Cybersecurity team
This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the Durham, NC office a minimum of three days per week.
The hourly rate for this internship is $55.00. 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:
- Experience first-hand cloud security and operations in a software security company
- Deliver a well-defined project that will help improve the security at Tanium
- Work as a member of Tanium’s Cloud Cybersecurity team
- Show off what you’ve built
- Have a great time. Tanium’s a fun place to work, we think you’ll like it here!
We are looking for someone who is:
- Authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future
- Available to work full-time from June 8, 2026 to August 15, 2026
- Currently enrolled Bachelors degree candidate. GPA of 3.5 or above REQUIRED
- Graduating Spring 2027 or Fall 2026
- Prior internship preferred
- Has some experience with Cloud such as AWS
- Passionate about hands-on learning and solving security challenges
- Ability to communicate and work with peers
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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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.
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