Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement features across the Connector, the Relay, and the Controller services that drive them.
• Own one or more Controller microservices end to end (rule engine, geolocation, event workers, proxy paths, connector management).
• Diagnose and resolve performance issues in production: memory pressure, CPU saturation, latency hotspots, autoscaling tuning.
• Write architecture proposals and design documents; drive them through review with peers and the team's architect.
• Investigate complex production support cases — the ones that require domain expertise about a customer's environment, an interop quirk, or proposing a different approach to their problem.
• Contribute to the team's AI-augmented development pipeline: shape what gets autonomous, where humans gate, and what validation is non-negotiable for a security product.
• Required Qualifications:
• 7+ years of experience building production backend systems. Equally comfortable with Kubernetes-deployed services and software that ships as a Linux VM — our stack spans both.
• Strong proficiency in Go or an adjacent systems-leaning language (Rust, C++, or similar) and willingness to be polyglot in our stack (Go, Python, some C/C++).
• Demonstrated experience operating software that runs in customer environments — on-prem services, marketplace images, update mechanisms — and the realities of long-tail version compatibility (customers do not upgrade on your schedule).
• Hands-on production debugging with metrics, profiling, and autoscaling (HPA / KEDA).
• Linux internals (systemd, namespaces, networking) at a level sufficient to debug a misbehaving Connector running on a customer's host.
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, TLS, proxies, NAT, firewalls) — the Connector and Relay carry customer traffic directly.
• Demonstrated experience using an agent harness like ours in real engineering work, and the judgment to direct, review, and validate its output.
• Excellent written communication; ability to write design documents that survive review.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Prior work on a ZTNA, SASE, SSE, VPN, or other network security product.
• Distributed systems experience — consistency, retries, idempotency, and reasoning about partial failures across services and regions.
• Production depth in Microsoft Azure (where our cloud services run). AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) experience is a plus — the Relay also deploys to those clouds for regions where Azure isn't available.
• CI/CD and supply-chain hygiene: signed releases, SBOM, reproducible builds.
• Experience designing or operating an LLM-powered system in production (RAG, agentic workflows, or otherwise).
• Track record of driving architectural decisions across multiple services and lifting peers along the way.
• Why Join TrendAI?
• TrendAI is a leader in AI security. We not only delivered the first open-weight, cybersecurity-focused large language model, but also the industry's first security companion agent evaluated directly by customers. Trend Vision One integrates endpoint, cloud, network, email, identity, AI application, and data security into a single, unified platform. In this role, you will help define how a security-critical product is built — including how AI shapes the development process itself. You will partner with engineering leaders applying AI to that process, working in an environment where the bar on systems thinking, critical review, and security instinct has gone up, not down.
• What We Offer You:
• You're important to us. What matters to you, matters to us too. TrendAI provides benefit options for you and your family.
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Pre-partum, maternity, parental and medical leave
• Mental Health Wellness Program
• Adoption Assistance
• Wellness Incentive
• Pet Insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off
• 14 Annual Holidays
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Resource Groups
• We offer competitive compensation with bonus opportunity tied to company performance, along with room to enhance your skills through ongoing learning and broad technological opportunities. Achieving work-life balance is a priority, complemented by team activities, fostering an environment rooted in equity, inclusion, and collaboration, that is reflected in both our culture and our work.
• Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender.
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• At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Trend Micro does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy and childbirth or related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care leave status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.