Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Austin, TX
Trend Micro1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement features across on-premises Connector, cloud Relay, and Controller services.
- Own Controller microservices end to end, including rule engines, geolocation, event workers, proxy paths, and connector management.
- Diagnose and resolve production performance issues involving memory pressure, CPU saturation, latency, and autoscaling.
- Write architecture proposals and design documents and drive them through peer and architect review.
- Investigate complex production support cases involving customer environments, interoperability issues, and alternative technical approaches.
- Help shape the team’s AI-augmented development pipeline, including autonomous work boundaries, human gates, and validation requirements.
Requirements
- Require 7+ years of experience building production backend systems across Kubernetes-deployed services and Linux VM software.
- Require strong proficiency in Go or an adjacent systems-oriented language such as Rust or C++, plus willingness to work with Go, Python, and C/C++.
- Require experience operating software in customer environments, including on-premises services, marketplace images, update mechanisms, and long-tail version compatibility.
- Require hands-on production debugging with metrics, profiling, and autoscaling technologies including HPA and KEDA.
- Require Linux internals knowledge covering systemd, namespaces, and networking sufficient to debug customer-hosted Connectors.
- Require networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, TLS, proxies, NAT, and firewalls.
- Require experience using an agent harness in engineering work and the judgment to direct, review, and validate its output.
- Require excellent written communication and the ability to produce design documents that withstand review.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with ZTNA, SASE, SSE, VPN, network security, distributed systems, Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD supply-chain practices, signed releases, SBOMs, reproducible builds, and production LLM-powered systems.
- Preferred candidates have a track record of driving architectural decisions across multiple services and mentoring or elevating peers.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Pre-partum, maternity, parental, and medical leave; mental health wellness program; adoption assistance; wellness incentive; and pet insurance.
- 401(k) with company match, paid time off, 14 annual holidays, tuition assistance, and employee resource groups.
- Competitive compensation with a company-performance bonus opportunity and ongoing learning opportunities.
- Hybrid work based in Austin, Texas, with in-office presence three days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
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.