Senior Software Engineer

• Design and implement native Windows components in modern C++, with deep integration into Win32, COM, Windows services, and system APIs.
• Build capabilities involving device redirection, input, display, audio/video, USB, and HID integration for remote desktop and virtualization scenarios.
• Develop and maintain cross-process, cross-thread, performance-critical code paths where correctness, latency, reliability, and stability are important.
• Make technical design decisions and evaluate tradeoffs across Windows client components, devices, and cloud-connected experiences.

• Independently investigate and resolve complex systems-level issues spanning kernel and user-mode boundaries, operating system integration, drivers, services, and client applications.
• Optimize memory usage, threading models, IPC, and I/O within complex, long-running Windows client processes.
• Diagnose performance, reliability, memory, and concurrency issues using telemetry, traces, dumps, debuggers, and other diagnostic tools.
• Partner with Windows platform, security, device, and other engineering teams to design robust and secure implementations.
• Navigate technically ambiguous problems, identify appropriate engineering tradeoffs, and drive solutions across component and team boundaries.

• Own features and technical areas across the full engineering lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, telemetry, and live-site debugging.
• Lead and contribute to design and code reviews, influencing technical decisions and improving engineering practices for testability, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Drive iterative improvements to Windows client technologies in an agile engineering environment with frequent releases.
• Investigate complex customer and production issues, determine root causes, and implement engineering improvements that reduce recurrence.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, share systems-level expertise, and contribute to raising engineering quality across the team.

• C++ for native Windows and systems-level development.
• C#, .NET, and WinUI.
• Win32, WinRT, COM, RPC, Windows services, and system APIs.
• Windows input, graphics, audio/video, networking, and device stacks.
• Windows diagnostics and debugging technologies, including ETW, traces, dumps, and debuggers.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Experience developing production software in C or C++.

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

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Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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