Technical Support Engineer
Tanium
| Company | Tanium |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Nagoya |
| Remote | Hybrid |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 26 Feb 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
This position requires Japanese fluency.
The Basics:
At Tanium, our Support Engineers fulfill a necessary role in our organization by serving our customers in resolving technical issues and answering technical questions in a timely manner. With a primary focus on customer satisfaction, Support Engineers work both reactively and proactively to improve the overall experience of our enterprise customers when using Tanium. This role reports to a Support Manager.
As a Support Engineer, you’ll have continuous opportunities to apply your best technical skills while building new skills ranging from scripting to debugging.
What You’ll Do:
Assisting customers by:
Triaging inbound support cases
Solving customer support cases
Working with other Support Engineers to assist with their assigned cases
Answering customer questions in the Tanium community site
Improve customer experience by:
Documenting best practices
Tracking activity, documenting root cause, and reporting
Serving as a technical subject matter expert, focusing mostly on the testing and troubleshooting aspects of the area
Testing Tanium and providing feedback to the Engineering teams on how we can improve the overall customer experience
We’re Looking For:
Education
Associates degree or equivalent experience required
BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, or similar experience a plus
Experience and Skills
Must Haves:
3+ years into their career field with solid technical skills in one or more areas of networking, security, operations, scripting, and/or programming
Ability to master new concepts and technologies; continually striving to master the Tanium platform and modules
Problem solving; can break problems down into manageable, ordered piece parts and successfully convey the problem statement and plan to others
Aptitude for comprehending complex troubleshooting
Good Judgement; understand the importance of weighing cost and value in decision making and practice making good judgement calls with improved consistency overtime
Independent; should be able to independently work on problems; should be able to complete tasks with limited assistance; participate in projects and follow technical support procedures only requiring help on more complex enterprise initiatives or issues
Solid understanding of Windows operating systems, including administration, troubleshooting, and configuration in enterprise environments
Ability to independently own and drive complex, ambiguous, enterprise scale issues end to end with minimal supervision.
Good to Have:
Prior experience and breadth of knowledge needed to support customers
Hands-on Tanium experience
Relevant technical certifications (Google IT Support Professional Certificate, CISSP, MCSE, A+/Security+/Network+ combined, etc.)
Experience in one or more of the following technical domains: Endpoint Security, Endpoint Support/Troubleshooting, Incident Response, Systems Management, Utility Scripting (bash, PowerShell, VBScript, Python)
Experience with Windows Server administration, Active Directory, Group Policy, and Windows-based endpoint management tools such as SCCM or Microsoft Intune
Familiarity with Windows event logs, registry, and system diagnostics for advanced troubleshooting in enterprise environments
Basic familiarity with macOS and/or Linux (for example: command-line navigation, log locations, basic troubleshooting), with a willingness to broaden coverage beyond Windows
English skills for collaboration with global teams (for example: joining calls and troubleshooting sessions with escalation or engineering teams)
About Tanium
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams
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