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About the Role

TrendAI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architectural evolution of our on-premises network security management appliance and its bridge to our cloud microservices platform. This full-stack technical leadership role involves modernizing a mature Java codebase, delivering modern web management surfaces with React and TypeScript, and expanding into companion cloud microservices built with Go and Node on AWS. You will own technical direction, mentor engineers, and champion AI-augmented development workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead backend architecture and engineering for the on-premises management appliance, evolving a large-scale Java codebase for device configuration, policy compilation, health monitoring, and event ingestion.
Modernize and modularize legacy subsystems within the Java EE / WildFly monolith, refactoring couplings into clean, testable service boundaries without disrupting customer operations.
Own data tier architecture and performance across relational and analytical data stores (MariaDB, ColumnStore, RDS), including query optimization, connection pooling, transactional integrity, and schema migrations.
Deliver full-stack capabilities by partnering backend APIs with modern web user interfaces (React, TypeScript) for enterprise-grade fleet management.
Design and evolve high-performance RESTful APIs alongside SOAP services, ensuring backward compatibility and interoperability.
Architect, build, and integrate companion cloud microservices (Go, Node.js, Python) on AWS using event-driven and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, AWS IoT).
Investigate and resolve high-complexity distributed systems failures, concurrency issues, memory leaks, thread contention, and performance bottlenecks using various diagnostic tools.
Establish and champion AI-augmented software engineering practices, directing coding assistants and setting validation standards.
Architect resilience and fault tolerance into fleet-management subsystems, including high availability, failover, cluster replication, and disaster recovery.
Author comprehensive automated test suites spanning backend unit/integration tests, Go tests, database tests, contract tests (Pact), and end-to-end browser workflows (Playwright).
Collaborate across organizational boundaries with architects, Product Management, and QA to scope initiatives, negotiate contracts, and align roadmaps.
Mentor and elevate engineers through design reviews, code reviews, architectural RFCs, and technical brownbags.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-grade production software, with significant depth in backend systems.
Deep expertise in Java and the JVM ecosystem in large, multi-threaded, high-concurrency codebases (memory management, garbage collection tuning, thread safety, profiling).
Solid experience with enterprise Java architectures (WildFly or comparable application servers; Java EE / Jakarta EE technologies such as EJBs, JPA, JMS, JAX-RS).
Strong relational and analytical database architecture skills (MariaDB, MySQL, ColumnStore, or PostgreSQL): schema design, index optimization, complex query tuning, transaction management, and safe, zero-downtime migration strategies.
Proven full-stack capabilities: hands-on experience designing and implementing modern front-end applications (React, TypeScript, modern CSS/build tooling) alongside RESTful APIs.
Experience designing and maintaining both RESTful APIs and SOAP-based service paradigms with strict backward-compatibility guarantees.
Track record of successful refactoring in large, mature codebases: untangling legacy monoliths, introducing abstraction boundaries, and applying design patterns without breaking backward compatibility.
Solid Linux systems programming and networking fundamentals: POSIX concepts, process lifecycle, inter-process communication, sockets, TCP/IP, and diagnostic tooling.
Demonstrated experience integrating agentic AI tools (such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot) into daily software development, with the engineering discipline to critically evaluate, verify, and test generated code before merge.
High-caliber debugging and root-cause analysis skills across distributed systems, multi-threaded applications, and database-intensive workloads.
Strong technical communication, writing, and leadership skills: experience authoring architecture design records (ADRs/RFCs), leading cross-functional design reviews, and mentoring senior and junior engineers.
BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Java
JVM
WildFly
EJB
JPA
JMS
JAX-RS
SOAP
REST
MariaDB
ColumnStore
React
TypeScript
Go
Node.js
AWS Lambda
AWS DynamoDB
AWS S3
AWS IoT
Linux
POSIX
TCP/IP
JUnit
Pact
Playwright
Python
API Gateway
RDS
CloudWatch
Terraform
Terragrunt
Serverless Framework
Kafka
RabbitMQ
SQS/SNS
Vitest
Jest

Location

Austin, TX

Work Type

On-site
Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff

Education Level

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits and paid time off package
Pre-partum, maternity, parental, medical leave and adoption assistance
Mental Health Wellness Program & Annual Wellness Incentive
401(k) with company match
Pet Insurance

About the Company

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.
At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.
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.

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.