Cloud Security Intern

Tanium · Durham, NC (Hybrid)

  • Internship
  • Internship
  • Posted 2026-09-22
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

Apply at Tanium

Job description

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 7, 2027 to August 13, 2027

• Currently enrolled Bachelors degree candidate. GPA of 3.5 or above REQUIRED

• Graduating Spring 2028 or Fall 2027

• 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 is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, 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.

For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy
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 application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact [email protected]. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

Please be aware

Prepare for the interview

Nothing collected for this employer yet. The Blind 75 is what technical screens draw from; practise it here, with a coach, in Java or Python.

More at Tanium

All open software jobs