Software Engineering Manager - Austin, TX

Trend Micro•Austin, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 in our Austin, TX office with an expectation of 3 days onsite per week. Position Summary: As a Software Engineering Manager at TrendAI, you will lead our Zero Trust Secure Access (ZTSA) platform, where security architecture, large-scale SaaS, and policy enforcement converge at cloud scale. This role demands real technical depth, and the leadership to build a team that matches it. If you haven’t written production code in the last six months, this role probably isn’t for you. If you’ve been a manager for a few years and quietly stopped being technical, and that feels fine, this role definitely isn’t for you.

Requirements

3+ years leading engineering teams — with a track record of raising the technical capability of the people around you.
8+ years of hands-on software development — and you’ve stayed close to the work since moving into leadership.
Strong technical instincts — you can make and defend architectural decisions, spot problems early, and earn the respect of senior engineers.
High tolerance for ambiguity — you figure out what matters, cut what doesn’t, and keep the team moving.
Proven ability to influence — across teams, functions, and leadership levels, without relying on authority.
Comfort operating in security or infrastructure domains — you understand the stakes and the complexity that comes with them.

Nice To Haves

Background in network security/cybersecurity engineering.
Familiarity with AI platforms & ML infrastructure.
Hands-on experience with Go (Golang) and/or Python.

Responsibilities

Stay technically engaged — contributing to architecture decisions, design discussions, and hands-on work alongside your team.
Develop your engineers — through honest feedback, active mentorship, and creating space for them to grow into bigger roles.
Partner with Product, Design, and peer engineering teams to deliver complex features and releases on time.
Set technical direction for the ZTSA platform and be the person the team turns to when the hard calls need to be made.
Build a team culture grounded in ownership, quality, and accountability — were engineers care about outcomes, not just output.
Translate technical tradeoffs clearly to leadership — and influence decisions at every level.
Identify and remove what slows your team down — ambiguity, process drag, unclear priorities.