Senior Data Engineer: AI Security & Knowledge Graph

TrendMicro; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) with match

Tuition Assistance

PTO 14 holidays

Job summary

Trend Micro seeks a Senior Data Engineer to build the data foundation for TrendAI's ontology platform in a hybrid Austin office setting. You will design scalable ingestion pipelines, entity resolution processes, and product integrations to convert diverse security data into connected knowledge.

The role combines data engineering, cybersecurity knowledge graphs, and AI systems to enable agents to reason over data and support investigations, risk analysis, and automated workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related fields.
• Experience building large-scale distributed data systems.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Databricks.
• Experience designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines at scale.
• Strong data modeling and schema design skills.
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Ontology & Knowledge Acquisition: Design scalable pipelines to transform data into a canonical ontology and develop data ingestion for telemetry, alerts, assets, and identities.
• Product Integrations: Collaborate with product teams to onboard new security products and build APIs/connectors for the ontology platform.
• Knowledge Graph Enablement: Model entities/relationships to support graph-based reasoning and enrichment workflows.
• Platform Engineering: Build scalable data pipelines, observability, and real-time processing architectures.
• AI & Agent Enablement: Enable AI agents to consume structured knowledge via ontology APIs and support reasoning/automation.

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed data

REST APIs

Event-driven

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

Airflow

Databricks

Job description

Trend Micro seeks a Senior Data Engineer to build the data foundation for TrendAI's ontology platform in a hybrid Austin office setting. You will design scalable ingestion pipelines, entity resolution processes, and product integrations to convert diverse security data into connected knowledge.

The role combines data engineering, cybersecurity knowledge graphs, and AI systems to enable agents to reason over data and support investigations, risk analysis, and automated workflows.