About the Role
TrendAI, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security. We are seeking exceptional talent to collaborate and push boundaries, helping to protect what matters and shape a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement features across the Connector, the Relay, and the Controller services.
- Own one or more Controller microservices end to end.
- Diagnose and resolve performance issues in production.
- Write architecture proposals and design documents.
- Investigate complex production support cases.
- Contribute to the team's AI-augmented development pipeline.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building production backend systems.
- Comfortable with Kubernetes-deployed services and software that ships as a Linux VM.
- Demonstrated experience operating software that runs in customer environments.
- Hands-on production debugging with metrics, profiling, and autoscaling.
- Linux internals (systemd, namespaces, networking) sufficient to debug a misbehaving Connector.
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, TLS, proxies, NAT, firewalls).
- Demonstrated experience using an agent harness in real engineering work.
- Excellent written communication skills for writing design documents.
Skills
- Go or an adjacent systems-leaning language (Rust, C++, or similar).
- Polyglot in Go, Python, some C/C++.
- Systems thinking.
- Operational instinct.
- Critical review.
- Security thinking.
- Domain expertise.
- Distributed systems experience.
- Production depth in Microsoft Azure.
- CI/CD and supply-chain hygiene.
- Designing or operating an LLM-powered system in production.
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Staff
Benefits
- 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
About the Company
- TrendAI is a leader in AI security, delivering the first open-weight, cybersecurity-focused large language model and 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.
- Trend Micro embraces change, empowers people, and encourages innovation in a connected world.
- Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
