Senior Software Engineer
Trellix· Computer & Network Security· Oct 24, 2026 · 2d ago
San Jose, CA
Hybrid
Full-time
Senior
$137K–$195K
5+ years exp
Job description
Job Title:
Senior Software Engineer About Trellix
Trellix is a global cybersecurity leader helping organizations build cyber resilience for the AI era. Combining AI-native security, operational threat intelligence, and automated detection and response, Trellix provides defense-grade protection at machine speed across on-premises, air-gapped, operational technology, hybrid, and cloud environments. Trellix helps customers anticipate threats, scale effective security operations, maintain business continuity, and adapt their security posture for the modern threat landscape. Working with a broad partner ecosystem and global intelligence collaborators, Trellix helps strengthen the collective defense against cybercriminals and state-sponsored attacks. At Trellix, we empower professionals at all career stages to expand their technical expertise, lead strategic initiatives, and make a tangible global impact. Whether you are an industry pioneer or an emerging specialist, Trellix provides the tools and opportunities to enhance and expand your skill set. Join our mission to scale AI-driven cyber defense alongside an AI-accelerated threat landscape, and help build a safer, more resilient future . More at trellix.com .
Role Overview:
Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Platform Services (5–8+ yrs)
Own the cloud services that connect Trellix security appliances to the Trellix cloud: device registration, licensing, and content and update delivery. You'll own development and production operations, lead technical compliance work for our FedRAMP-authorized environment, and drive the migration of these services from AWS to GCP.
Must have: strong skills in Go, Python, Java, or C/C++; hands-on AWS and/or GCP; Linux internals; Docker; CI/CD.
Nice to have: FedRAMP/NIST 800-53 experience, AWS migration, Kubernetes, Terraform.
The Role
We re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own the cloud services that connect Trellix security appliances to the Trellix cloud: device registration, licensing, and content and update delivery. You ll be the technical owner for these services. That covers design and development, production support, compliance work for our FedRAMP-authorized environment, and our ongoing migration from AWS to GCP.
Key Responsibilities
- Service ownership: Own the design, development, and day-to-day operation of production cloud services used by Trellix appliances worldwide.
- Cloud engineering: Build, deploy, and scale distributed, multi-tenant services on AWS and GCP.
- Cloud migration: Lead the technical side of moving workloads to the cloud: map dependencies, plan cutovers, validate, and roll back if needed.
- Compliance: Act as technical point of contact for FedRAMP. Supply control evidence, fix findings, and keep changes within compliance boundaries.
- CI/CD and automation: Build and maintain automated pipelines for build, test, deployment, and infrastructure.
- Containers and Linux: Deploy, run, and debug containerized workloads on hardened Linux.
- Reliability and observability: Improve availability, fault tolerance, performance, and monitoring. Handle escalations and lead root-cause analysis.
- Collaboration: Work with SRE, Support, Order Operations, product management, and partner engineering teams to resolve issues and deliver features.
- Knowledge continuity: Write and maintain runbooks, design docs, and operational procedures so no single person holds critical knowledge.
Qualifications
Required
- 5–8 years building and running production software
- Strong skills in at least one of Go, Python, Java, or C/C , plus shell scripting
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch) and/or GCP (Compute, GKE, IAM, Cloud SQL, Cloud Monitoring)
- Strong Linux fundamentals: internals, performance tuning, and network troubleshooting
- Docker and container-based deployments
- CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
- Bachelor s or Master s in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
Preferred
- Experience in FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, or similar regulated environments (ConMon, POA&M, evidence collection)
- Hands-on cloud-to-cloud migration experience (AWS preferred)
- Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/RKE2)
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience with licensing, entitlement, device registration, or content-delivery services
- Background in the security or networking domain
Company Benefits and Perks:
We believe that the best solutions are developed by teams who embrace each other s unique experiences, skills, and abilities. We work hard to create a dynamic workforce where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.
Retirement Plans
Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Support for Community Involvement
We re serious ab out our commitment to a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute to our industry-leading products and customer support, which is why we prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.
Our Commitment to You:
At Trellix, we are committed to creating a safe and trustworthy experience for our customers, employees, and candidates. Please be aware that fraudulent recruiting activity can occur through fake job postings or impersonated communications.
Trellix conducts interviews through professional channels only and does not use text messages, instant messaging, or group chats for interviews. We will never request sensitive personal information—such as your date of birth, Social Security number, or national ID number—during the interview process.
Trellix also does not require candidates to pay fees, purchase products or services, or process payments of any kind as part of the recruiting or hiring process. And Trellix will never keep any original work authorization documents that we may be required to review during the hiring process.
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