Sr. Backend Engineer (AI Threat Analysis Platform)
Trend Micro23 hours ago
Taipei, TaiwanSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the platform’s production operation end to end, including reliability, availability, performance, and cost.
- Define SLOs and build monitoring, alerting, and incident-response processes; lead on-call response and blameless postmortems.
- Architect and evolve scalable backend systems that orchestrate multi-stage AI-driven analysis workloads and process results at scale.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code for safe, repeatable releases and rollbacks.
- Monitor and optimize per-request compute and AI-inference costs, including cost visibility and anomaly detection.
- Establish runbooks, capacity planning, load testing, and scalable on-call rotation practices.
- Drive technical decisions on system architecture, technology stack, and infrastructure design.
- Champion AI adoption to improve development workflows and code quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of backend development experience delivering and operating production systems at scale.
- Hands-on experience owning production services, including on-call, incident handling, root cause analysis, and follow-up actions.
- Proficiency in at least one backend programming language.
- Hands-on experience with microservices development and Kubernetes deployment.
- Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, cloud-based development, Infrastructure as Code, and observability.
- Nice-to-have experience includes operating AI-inference or external-API services, LLM gateways, tracing and evaluation tooling, workload isolation, Kafka or SQS-based processing, capacity planning, cloud cost optimization, Docker, DevOps/SRE practices, Claude Code, Cursor, and cybersecurity products.
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro builds cybersecurity software and cloud services for enterprises, governments, and consumers, including endpoint, network, email, and cloud workload protection unified in the Trend Vision One platform. The company sells subscriptions and licenses with managed threat detection and response. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is a public company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange with global operations and longstanding partnerships with major cloud providers.