Software Developer Co-Op - Fall 2025

Trend Micro; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company is seeking a talented software developer to join their Cloud One R&D team in Ottawa. In this role, you will design and implement innovative software solutions while leveraging cutting-edge technologies like Cloud and Microservices. Ideal candidates will possess strong Java skills and a proactive, problem-solving mindset, contributing to enhancing security products across diverse platforms.

Benefits

Opportunities for personal growth and training

Frequent team activities and project celebrations

Regular Hack Days

Global opportunities within a diverse workforce

Qualifications

• Exceptional development skills primarily in Java.
• Experience with cloud-based systems and microservices.
• Scripting skills preferred to automate tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and test high-quality software capabilities for data center and cloud systems.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to understand customer needs.
• Focus on writing clean, efficient code with strong emphasis on testing.

Skills

Java

C

C++

Scripting

Cloud Technologies

Microservices

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

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

As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, our platform delivers central visibility for better, faster detection and response and a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments, like AWS, Microsoft, and Google.

Position Summary:
Within the Cloud One R&D team at Trend Micro, you will participate as part of a dynamic and talented team that develops the next generation of Trend Micro's security products. The Cloud One team is comprised of highly effective small teams that take ownership for various areas of our product and services. The teams work hard innovating to make the best darn software imaginable.

Your role will be to design, implement and test high quality software capabilities for data center and cloud based systems using your excellent coding abilities. This is a software development role requiring exceptional programming skills and a high degree of adaptability and creativity. If you love writing beautiful, efficient, and productive code, and have a desire to see your code deliver great value, we want to talk to you.

What Sets Us Apart:

• Trend provides opportunities to pursue personal growth, training and continued development

• Employees are encouraged to thrive, fail safely, learn from mistakes and grow

• Use of innovative technologies like Cloud, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes and DevOps

• Frequent team activities, project celebrations and knowledge sharing

• Regular Hack Days!

• Global company, global opportunities

We're looking for someone who:

• Will use their exceptional development skills primarily in Java to build innovative and sustainable solutions that solve customerproblems. Expertise in C and C++ would be an asset.

• Loves to work on a great cross functional team collaborating effectively with various groups to understand business objectives, customer needs and gaps, and deliver on the team objectives

• Appreciates the breadth of software systems from the various perspectives such as usability, testability, performance, scalability and supportability

• Has great scripting skills and always prefers to automate in favor of manual work

• Will work on a variety of platforms at varying heights in the stack, and at any level of the software pipeline

• Is quality focused, believes in unit testing and making their code easily debuggable in the field, and believes the best tests are coded and performed by a machine

• Has a proactive, customer-oriented approach when troubleshooting problems and resolving issues related to product, process and tools

• Has the desire or experience developing secure code and working in a security space

• Has or is pursuing a bachelor of computer science degree (or equivalent)

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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.