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.
AI Fearlessly.
Location: This is a hybrid role based out of our Austin, TX office and requires in-office presence three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).
TrendAI is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help build Trend Vision One™ Private Access, our Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) capability. Private Access lets enterprise customers reach internal applications — RDP, SSH, web — without exposing those apps to the public internet and without a traditional VPN.
The Austin team works across three pieces of Private Access: a Connector on-premises next to the customer's application; a Relay in our cloud that brokers the connection between the end user's device and the Connector; and a Controller of cloud microservices that runs the policy, identity, and authorization plane. The product runs across many global cloud regions to meet customer compliance and latency needs. This is a hands-on engineering role with architectural scope.
We're moving in the same direction as the rest of the industry: engineers no longer just write code; we design the systems that produce it. Concretely, we're building toward a daily loop where:
We're partway through this transition and the candidate we hire will help define how much further it goes.
AI makes mistakes — confidently. A senior engineer's value shifts from typing code (AI does that) toward defining the right requirements, catching the plausible-but-wrong output, and bringing the context AI doesn't have. The skills that matter most:
Why Join TrendAI?
TrendAI is a leader in AI security. We not only delivered the first open-weight, cybersecurity-focused large language model, but also 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. In this role, you will help define how a security-critical product is built — including how AI shapes the development process itself. You will partner with engineering leaders applying AI to that process, working in an environment where the bar on systems thinking, critical review, and security instinct has gone up, not down.
You're important to us. What matters to you, matters to us too. TrendAI provides benefit options for you and your family.
We offer competitive compensation with bonus opportunity tied to company performance, along with room to enhance your skills through ongoing learning and broad technological opportunities. Achieving work-life balance is a priority, complemented by team activities, fostering an environment rooted in equity, inclusion, and collaboration, that is reflected in both our culture and our work.
Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender.
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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. 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.
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information across enterprises, governments, and consumers.
Fueled by decades of security expertise and relentless innovation, Trend leverages the full power of AI to protect over 500,000 enterprises and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, endpoints, and devices.
At the core of this protection is Trend Vision One™, the only AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform that centralizes cyber risk exposure management and security operations, delivering robust layered protection across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
This platform is fueled by world-class threat intelligence and insights that help defend organizations from hundreds of millions of threats every day.
With 7,000 employees across 70 countries, Trend empowers security leaders to stay ahead of threats, driving proactive security outcomes across the entire attack surface. This includes critical environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.
Proactive security starts here.
