Trellix

Trellix

Software Development Engineer – Agentic AI

Enterprise - US, Texas, Frisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
TypeScriptPythonBashReactNode.jsFastAPIData StructuresGitPostgreSQLRedisVector DatabasesAWSKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsLinuxRESTMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationCybersecuritySIEMSOC Operations

About the role

  • This role is hybrid in nature with the Engineer able to commute into the Frico, TX office 3-4 days/week.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of our generative AI platform, driving core functionality, agentic workflows, and platform-level features from concept through production.
  • Build, iterate on, and harden multi-agent pipelines, including tool use, inter-agent coordination, and autonomous decision workflows for security operations.
  • Proactively implement best practices to ensure applications are highly resilient, secure, and performant, with particular attention to the sensitivity of security operations data.
  • Analyze feature requirements and produce detailed design documentation, architectural decision records, and async-friendly technical specs.
  • Own production issues end-to-end, including triage, root cause analysis, post-mortems, and SLA commitments, for a platform operating in high-stakes environments.
  • Join our innovative team at Trellix, where you'll lead the design and development of a cutting-edge generative AI platform powering advanced AI capabilities across the entire Trellix security portfolio.
  • Design and Develop: Lead the design and development of our generative AI platform, driving core functionality, agentic workflows, and platform-level features from concept through production.
  • Agent Workflow Development: Build, iterate on, and harden multi-agent pipelines, including tool use, inter-agent coordination, and autonomous decision workflows for security operations.
  • Deliver High-Quality Solutions: Ensure solutions are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards, meeting project goals and customer commitments.
  • Ensure Resilience & Security: Proactively implement best practices to ensure applications are highly resilient, secure, and performant, with particular attention to the sensitivity of security operations data.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) in production
  • Langchain experience required, including building and operating stateful multi-agent workflows
  • Experience with prompt orchestration and chain composition
  • Familiarity with Agentic AI concepts and patterns (ReACT, chain-of-thought, tool use, Deep Agents)
  • Experience deploying and operating vLLM for self-hosted inference
  • Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) for agentic tool integration
  • And Trellix will never keep any original work authorization documents that we may be required to review during the hiring process.

Nice to have

  • Linux proficiency is a must
  • Shell scripting (preferred)
  • Postgres (preferred)
  • Knowledge Graphs, including NebulaGraph or equivalent (preferred)
  • Vector Databases, including Qdrant or equivalent (preferred)
  • Embedding pipeline experience including chunking strategies and retrieval tuning (preferred)
  • Working knowledge of threat detection, EDR telemetry, SOC workflows, or SIEM platforms strongly preferred
  • Understanding of Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) and Incident Response a plus

Skills

  • Excellent development and debugging skills in Python
  • Strong grasp of data structures and design patterns
  • Proficiency with REST and async Web APIs
  • CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
  • Ability to operate with autonomy in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
  • FastAPI (preferred)
  • Node.js / TypeScript for tooling and API integration layers (preferred)
  • Gunicorn or Uvicorn
  • OpenTelemetry (OTEL) instrumentation
  • Redis (preferred)
  • Langfuse or LangSmith for agent observability (preferred)
  • Kubernetes (preferred)

Benefits

  • Retirement Plans
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

Company info

  • Software Development Engineer - Agentic AI About Trellix
  • Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity.
  • The company's comprehensive, open, and native cybersecurity platform helps organizations confronted by today's most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations.
  • Trellix, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerates technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 50,000 business and government customers with responsibly architected security.
  • More at https://trellix.com.
  • At Trellix, we are committed to creating a safe and trustworthy experience for our customers, employees, and candidates.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • 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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