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.
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Location: This is a hybrid role with a minimum in-office requirement of 3 days per week in the Ottawa, ON office located at 40 Hines Rd, Ottawa, ON K2K 2M5.
Position Summary:
We are seeking a Full-Stack Engineer (macOS) with a strong quality-first mindset to design, develop, test, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions. This role goes beyond feature development: you will be deeply involved in test strategy, automation, and quality engineering, ensuring that correctness, security, and reliability are built into the product from day one.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, test, and maintain macOS applications and supporting backend services with a focus on quality, reliability, performance, and security.
Take end-to-end ownership of features, from design and implementation through testing, validation, and release.
Collaborate with architects and developers to define technical requirements, test requirements, acceptance criteria, and quality gates.
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in C++, Python, or other relevant languages across the stack.
Design, implement, and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, system, regression) as part of normal development work.
Integrate security features and ensure compliance with secure coding and secure testing standards.
Perform code reviews, test reviews, debugging, and root-cause analysis to ensure high-quality deliverables.
Improve test coverage, testability, and automation effectiveness.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines by embedding testing, validation, and quality checks.
Stay up to date with macOS platform changes, emerging technologies, and evolving security threats.
Contribute to technical documentation, test plans, and engineering best practices.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Solid experience as a full-stack or systems engineer, with hands-on development experience on macOS or Linux platforms.
Strong proficiency in C++ or Python, with experience building reliable and testable systems.
Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, design patterns, and quality engineering principles.
Strong testing experience, including:
Automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, end-to-end)
Test design, test strategy, and defect analysis
Designing for testability
Experience with Agile development, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
Background in security engineering, threat modeling, or secure coding/testing is a plus.
Experience with cloud environments, microservices, and databases (SQL/NoSQL) is a plus.
Familiarity with AI-driven or AI-assisted software development 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.
Group benefits program with health and dental coverage
Telehealth Virtual Health Services
Life Insurance
Short & Long Term Disability
Pre-partum, maternity, parental and medical leave
Critical Illness Insurance
Mental Health Wellness Program
Wellness Incentive Program
Retirement Savings Programs 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.
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Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender.
No sponsorship will be provided for work permit applications or renewals for this position now or in the future.
For applicants in the province of Ontario: Trend Micro Canada is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is CAD $105,000.00 – $130,000.00 A candidate’s final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors to include, but not limited to relevant work experience, skills, and certifications.
At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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What We Do
We’re a global cybersecurity leader, helping to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, our cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.
As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, our platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response.
Our global threat research team delivers unparalleled intelligence and insights that power our cybersecurity platform and help protect organizations around the world from 100s of millions of threats daily.
We have 7,000 employees across 65 countries, singularly focused on security and passionate about making the world a safer and better place.
We enable organizations to simplify and secure their connected world.
Trend Micro’s “Trenders” are passionate about doing the right thing to make the world a safer and better place.
