Job Title:
Director - Customer Response Engineering
About Trellix
Trellix is a global cybersecurity leader helping organizations build cyber resilience for the AI era. Combining AI-native security, operational threat intelligence, and automated detection and response, Trellix provides defense-grade protection at machine speed across on-premises, air-gapped, operational technology, hybrid, and cloud environments. Trellix helps customers anticipate threats, scale effective security operations, maintain business continuity, and adapt their security posture for the modern threat landscape. Working with a broad partner ecosystem and global intelligence collaborators, Trellix helps strengthen the collective defense against cybercriminals and state-sponsored attacks. At Trellix, we empower professionals at all career stages to expand their technical expertise, lead strategic initiatives, and make a tangible global impact. Whether you are an industry pioneer or an emerging specialist, Trellix provides the tools and opportunities to enhance and expand your skill set. Join our mission to scale AI-driven cyber defense alongside an AI-accelerated threat landscape, and help build a safer, more resilient future. More at https://trellix.com.
Role Overview:
Customer Response Engineering (CRE) connects Trellix's most demanding customers directly to engineering. When a critical issue hits a customer's production environment, CRE owns it from first contact to permanent fix, and makes sure the lesson reaches the product.
The Director leads CRE globally and owns engineering response for strategic customers across our endpoint, data security, email, and network products. The role also owns prevention: finding risk in customer environments before it becomes an incident.
Location: United States (remote or hybrid) Reports to: Chief Technology Officer Function: Engineering Travel: Up to 25%, domestic and international
This role has three pillars. Strong candidates will be exceptional in at least two.
Customer obsession. You treat a customer's problem as yours until it is solved. You know where each account stands and act before the customer has to ask twice.
Calm under pressure. You stay steady in front of a frustrated executive, a hard deadline, and several internal teams with competing priorities. You lower the temperature, set a plan, and hold people to it.
Deep technical skill with an AI-first mindset. You can read a crash dump, a process trace, or a packet capture and argue root cause with senior engineers. Your first move on a hard problem is to ask how AI can shorten it.
You also work well across teams. CRE succeeds only when Technical Support, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, Product Management, and Engineering pull in the same direction.
Base Pay Range: $225K-275K. Actual base pay within this range will depend on varying circumstances, including the work location, individual qualifications, company budget and other operational business needs. Compensation may also include annual bonuses and long-term incentives, subject to various metrics and company policy.
Company Benefits and Perks:
We believe that the best solutions are developed by teams who embrace each other's unique experiences, skills, and abilities. We work hard to create a dynamic workforce where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.
We're serious about our commitment to a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute to our industry-leading products and customer support, which is why we prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.
Our Commitment to You:
At Trellix, we are committed to creating a safe and trustworthy experience for our customers, employees, and candidates. Please be aware that fraudulent recruiting activity can occur through fake job postings or impersonated communications.
Trellix conducts interviews through professional channels only and does not use text messages, instant messaging, or group chats for interviews. We will never request sensitive personal information—such as your date of birth, Social Security number, or national ID number—during the interview process.
Trellix also does not require candidates to pay fees, purchase products or services, or process payments of any kind as part of the recruiting or hiring process. And Trellix will never keep any original work authorization documents that we may be required to review during the hiring process.
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Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity. The company’s comprehensive, open, and native cybersecurity platform helps organizations confronted by today’s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Trellix, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerates technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 50,000 business and government customers with responsibly architected security. More at https://trellix.com.
