R&D Manager, ZTSA

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.  

Location: Based out of our Austin, TX office and requires in-office presence three days a week. 

Position Summary: 

TrendAI Zero Trust Secure Access secures access to internal and external applications by preventing unauthorized activity and automatically responding to access violations and risky behavior. It delivers optimal protection against unwanted access across your organization. 

We are seeking an experienced R&D Manager to lead the design, development, testing, deployment and evaluation of Zero Trust Secure Access (ZTSA). This role sits at the intersection of security architecture, large-scale SaaS systems, and data-driven infrastructure, and requires strong technical depth, proven people leadership, and the ability to work cross-functionally to ensure the platform scales securely to support high-volume traffic, telemetry, and policy enforcement in a modern cloud environment. 

As a R&D Manager at TrendAI your responsibilities will include: 

Technical Leadership: 

• Lead the design and continuous evolution of cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS architectures for Zero Trust Secure Access (ZTSA), ensuring high availability, resiliency, and scalability. 

• Provide technical oversight and direction across projects, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and delivery of high-quality, production-ready solutions. 

• Own and drive key architectural decisions across data ingestion, storage, processing, and analytics to support large-scale security telemetry and policy enforcement. 

• Establish and enforce engineering best practices, ensuring high code quality, architectural consistency, and long-term maintainability across the team. 

• Evaluate and integrate relevant AI advancements into engineering workflows and platform capabilities to improve efficiency, quality, and innovation. 

• Stay current with emerging technologies, cloud platforms, and security trends to keep the team technically competitive and future ready. 

Product Ownership: 

• Own end-to-end delivery of product features and platform capabilities, executing with Agile and DevOps best practices. 

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deeply understand the requirements and translate them into scalable product designs and engineering plans. 

• Drive communication, planning and integration across Trend Vision One initiatives, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence and continuous improvement.  

• Lead project planning and execution, ensuring clear specifications, direction, and adequate resources for delivering high-quality projects on time, with a strong focus on customer experience. 

• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks early to improve predictability and enhance team performance. 

• Leverage AI technologies in product development and demonstrating measurable business 

People Management:  

• Lead periodic performance and alignment reviews to evaluate individual and team impact, identify growth opportunities, and support long-term career development 

• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports to provide coaching, feedback, and career guidance 

• Own and drive the end-to-end hiring process, including role definition, resume screening, interviewing, offer decisions, and onboarding of new team members 

• Manage annual compensation and salary review processes, providing thoughtful input and clear rationale for compensation decisions 

• Leverage AI-enabled tools (e.g., resume screening, performance insights, or evaluation analytics) to improve efficiency and objectivity in hiring and people management practices; prior hands-on experience is a plus 

What We Offer You:  

You're important to us. What matters to you, matters to us too. Trend Micro provides benefit options for you and your family. 

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance 

• Life insurance 

• Short & Long Term Disability  

• Pre-partum, maternity, parental and medical leave 

• Mental Health Wellness Program 

• Adoption Assistance 

• Wellness Incentive 

• Pet Insurance 

• 401(k) with company match Paid Time Off 

• 14 Annual Holidays 

• Tuition Assistance 

• Employee Resource Groups 

We offer competitive compensation with bonus opportunity tied to company performance, along with room to enhance your skills through ongoing learning and broad technological opportunities. Achieving work-life balance is a priority, complemented by team activities, fostering an environment rooted in equity, inclusion, and collaboration, that is reflected in both our culture and our work. 

Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender. 

This position does not offer sponsorship for work permit applications or renewals, either now or in the future. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship, both currently and moving forward. The company will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this role (including, but not limited to, H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT, or any other employment-based visa). 

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