Sr. Staff 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.

Proactive security starts here. TrendMicro.com

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).

Position Summary:

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.

How We Build:

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:

• Engineers work through an agent harness (Claude Code, plus its peers) layered on top of GitHub Actions, Jira, CI/CD, docs, and runtime data.
• Agents handle most of th...