Sr. Software Engineer - Austin, TX

About this role

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, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend harnesses AI to protect organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.

The Trend Vision One™ enterprise cybersecurity platform accelerates proactive security outcomes by predicting and preventing threats across the entire digital estate and environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

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Location: This is a hybrid role based in our Austin, TX office with an expectation of 3 days onsite per week.

Position Summary:

TrendAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the data plane of the TippingPoint Threat Prevention System (TPS). TPS is a family of physical and virtual network appliances designed in-house, featuring custom hardware and acceleration logic. These appliances detect and block malicious network traffic at speeds up to 100Gbps with microsecond latency and low to no false positives. As a member of the Data Plane team, you will work on software development and have the opportunity to influence hardware enhancements. Your contributions will enhance TPS's existing Network Intrusion Prevention capabilities and expand the platform's potential in the age of AI, securing AI resources and leveraging AI to improve security and response.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop enhancements to our deep packet inspection engine and other TPS components.
• Analyze and parse network protocols for real-world use, not just from RFCs.
• Optimize the performance of new and existing components.
• Identify new inspection capabilities and ways to improve our hardware.
• Advise Threat Researchers in writing accurate, high-performance detection filters.
• Test and validate functionality using unit testing and automated ...