Senior C++ Windows Developer

Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is a key solution pillar of the Autonomous workspace. As part of the DEX Telemetry team, you will be providing technical leadership by driving the design and development of the product. You will be leading engineering initiatives and champion a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. You will coach, manage, and mentor a team of high performing engineers.

You have a strong interest in Windows client-side application development and have delivered client-side applications on Windows in C++. You are passionate about end user experience for client applications and focus on high performant applications. You have a good understanding of the Windows 10 operating system and are proficient with the internals of the Windows platform and subsystems. You have a keen eye for performance and robustness of Windows applications and have experience in troubleshooting, performance monitoring, tuning, and headless upgrades of Windows applications. You have a good understanding of the C++ language specification.

You have experience in working with a team of highly skilled engineers and have adopted a culture of good coding practices, testable code, CI/CD and well-monitored applications. You have experience in code reviews, architecture discussions and influencing a technical choice for the product you own. You have also experience in working closely with product management to strike a balance between features and engineering excellence.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build and maintain reliable, reusable, testable C++ code on Windows platform.
• Implement cross platform Telemetry modules that compiles and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
• Identify and troubleshoot performance and code quality issues.
• Active engagement with different stake holders - Product Managers, Solution Architects, Security Engineering, and other members within Engineering to define and deliver the required solution.
• Active participation in all stages of software development - requirement, design, coding, Test Automation and debugging.
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding best practices.
• Serve as a mentor to junior developers.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATION:

You are expected to be proficient in the following:

• Windows System Architecture, Windows Subsystem, and subsystem libraries
• Windows Internals and concepts such as Processes, Threads, Jobs, Memory Management, IO system, etc.
• Windows Security model, Windows Object Managers, object directory, handle tables, etc.

• Familiarity with kernel debugging using Windbg syntax, functions and capabilities.
• Dump analysis and Windows troubleshooting experience using SysInternals tools such as ProcMon, VMMap, ProcessExplorer, RamMap, etc.

• Good understanding of memory management
• Understanding of versioning tools such as Git
• Developing unit tests using Google Test

• Strong Proficiency in C++ is a must, with a fair knowledge of C++ 17/20 language specification.
• Current knowledge of C# with .NET 8, AOT is a strong plus.

Within the first 6-12 months, what are the 2-3 most important performance goals (described as SMART Goals if possible) I would be expected to complete for you to consider me successful in this role?

In the first 6 weeks you will

• Get a good understanding of the DEX Telemetry agent architecture and source code.
• Compile, build and test the telemetry agent on Windows.
• Develop unit tests to increase code coverage.
• Actively participate in design and code-reviews

In the subsequent weeks you will

• Focus on the design and development of new features and components for DEEM.
• Document your design.
• Build, test and optimize your design.
• Develop unit tests that span > 90% code coverage.
• Contribute to feature migration from legacy to TLM.
• Develop components test cases.
• Work closely with multiple stakeholders in other parts of the product

What type of work will I be doing? What assignments or requirements will I be performing on a regular basis? What are my deliverables?

• You will be expected to write lots of code and then some more.
• You will build and maintain reliable, reusable, testable C++ code on Windows platform.
• You will design software, assist with technology choices, develop prototypes to test your theory.
• You will be expected to support the team in handling escalations, debugging, and troubleshooting customer issues.

Who is the hiring manager? What is your background and management style? What is the structure of the team/organization I will be working with?

This role will be reporting to the Director of Engineering. Our team's focus is to build the best of breed DEX solution. Our team comprises of heterogenous mix of subject matter experts in Windows, macOS and Linux internals. We believe in building trust among all our stakeholders and committing to make our customers successful. The team is organized based on modules to define clear responsibility and accountability. At the same time the team is fluid enough to own up whatever is needed for the larger product to be successful.

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