Staff Software Development Engineer - Windows Endpoint

About the role

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The Role

As Staff Software Development Engineer, you'll be the Windows kernel authority for the runtime enforcement layer of our Identity Security Platform. These components decide, in-kernel, whether to permit or deny each action an identity or AI agent attempts on a Windows endpoint.

You'll set the technical direction for kernel-mode enforcement on Windows and own it end to end. That means hooks that make the right call in real time, across the fleet, without breaking legitimate workloads. Peer engineers own the macOS and Linux enforcement surfaces. You share one policy language, one event schema, and one userspace agent with them, but Windows kernel-space is yours.

You know this layer better than anyone. You want your code to be the thing that stops a compromised credential or a runaway AI coding agent before it impacts production.

What You’ll Do

- Design, build, and own our kernel-mode enforcement drivers: file-system, process and thread creation, handle operations, and registry access. You'll block operations inline in the kernel rather than logging them after the fact, and you'll build the userspace agent that installs and drives them.

- Own the kernel/user-mode enforcement boundary: kernel-side event capture, policy evaluation in user mode, and deny decisions pushed back into the driver as hash-keyed caches so subsequent hits block inline.

- Drive down enforce-mode latency on the operation hot path as we scale across large fleets. That means process enrichment, image-hash caching and eviction under heavy process-churn, and process-ancestry resolution across PPID spoofing.

- Extend enforcement into containers and isolation: Windows containers and Host Compute Service workloads, silo- and job-object-aware policy, and container identity on kernel events. Most of this is greenfield, and it sits at the center of the role.

- Harden portability and stability across Windows builds so enforcement loads and behaves correctly on the versions customers actually run. You'll deal with structure-versioning across Windows releases, PatchGuard constraints, Driver Verifier and HVCI compliance, WHQL attestation signing, and graceful degradation when a capability isn't available.

- Partner with the Linux and macOS enforcement engineers and the policy-backend team on the shared plane: policy semantics, cross-stack conformance, event schema, the common Rust agent. You'll represent Windows in cross-org architecture reviews.

- Read requirements to find gaps and risks, propose simplifications, and explain tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.