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Trend Micro · 5 hours ago

Sr. Architect, Network Access - Austin, TX

Austin, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity leader focused on making digital information exchanges safe. They are seeking a Senior Technical Architect to own and evolve the architecture of their distributed secure network access platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance while guiding system-wide design decisions across multiple engineering teams.

Cloud SecurityCyber SecuritySecurityVirtualization

Culture & Values

No H1B

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the end-to-end architecture of a distributed network access platform spanning on-prem agents and connectors, and cloud-hosted relay and management (SaaS) components

Define architectural direction and guardrails to ensure scalability, high availability, regional failover, performance, and long-term evolvability

Design architectures that enable a small number of semi-autonomous teams to deliver independently, without excessive coordination overhead

Make and guide system-wide architectural decisions, including protocol selection (e.g., transport, multiplexing, RPC), based on performance, reliability, and maintainability tradeoffs

Establish strategies for backward compatibility, upgrades, and incremental system evolution

Produce and maintain architecture artifacts such as design documents, diagrams, tradeoff analyses, and reference implementations

Review and approve designs across multiple development teams, providing clear, actionable feedback

Mentor and coach engineers on distributed systems design, architectural tradeoffs, and pragmatic decision-making

Collaborate with product management, customers, field engineering, and security researchers to shape designs and propose integration approaches for secure access to internal and internet-facing resources

Occasionally implement prototypes or targeted production code to validate designs or unblock teams

Qualification

Distributed systems designNetworking fundamentalsCloud-hosted platformsArchitectural decision makingProtocol selectionScalability reasoningMentoring engineersHands-on software developmentAI tools familiarityCommunication skills

Required

Significant experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems with ownership of architectural decisions

Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and L4/L7 behavior, including protocol tradeoffs relevant to hybrid on-prem and cloud systems

Experience selecting and applying existing protocols and technologies in production environments

Proven ability to reason about scalability, latency, performance budgets, consistency, and failure modes

Experience designing architectures that enable multiple semi-autonomous teams to deliver independently

Experience designing and operating cloud-hosted, as-a-service platforms, alongside on-prem components deployed in customer environments

Familiarity with cloud environments, operating primarily in Azure with supporting components in other providers

Familiarity with AI tools across the software development lifecycle, and the ability to collaborate effectively alongside such tools to enhance productivity and innovation

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining designs and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Hands-on software development experience, with the ability to contribute code when appropriate