Kirkland-based cybersecurity company Tanium is rapidly growing its local presence after moving its headquarters here from the Bay Area in 2020.
Tanium, which had about 60 employees based in Kirkland at the start of last year, currently has about 100 in the area, according to Steve Daheb, its chief marketing officer. He added that the company has about 2,200 employees total, up from roughly 1,500 at the start of 2021.
"We'll find great cyber talent across the states," Daheb said. "But, obviously, with the technology presence in the Seattle area, yeah, we'll tend to find people that understand networking. Understand security. Understand cloud and its ramifications. Understand data and what that means in terms of collecting the data. Understanding where your devices are and protecting them."
Tanium has offices in Kirkland, the Bay Area and Morrisville, North Carolina, but allows employees to work completely remote if they like. Daheb said the company has seen increased productivity and has attracted strong talent since its move to remote-first at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. He added that the offices are open for employees and teams to use as they see fit.
"If people want to move from the Bay Area and they want to move to St. Louis, or they want to move somewhere else, I'm really agnostic about it," Tanium co-founder and CEO Orion Hindawi previously told the Business Journal. "I think you can get ahead in Tanium regardless of where you live. We have senior people who live in Bozeman, Montana. They don't live around a lot of other people, and they're very successful."
Tanium currently has just under 6,800 square feet of office space at Carillon Point in Kirkland. Daheb said the company will be opportunistic about potentially growing that space down the road, and in general the company is monitoring its employees' use of the offices to determine its real estate needs.
Tanium, founded in 2007, protects businesses' end devices, like laptops and smartphones, from cybercriminals. Its clients include Barclays, GoDaddy and the U.S. Navy. The company, which was based in Emeryville, California, before moving to Kirkland, said in 2020, following an investment from Salesforce, that it had a valuation of $9 billion.
Daheb said although Tanium is still growing, the company hasn't released a specific target for how many employees it aims to have in a year.
"We continue to hire for key talent across development, go to market, marketing. I'm looking to add great people as well," Daheb said.
