Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft • $119K — $234K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Information Technology
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field plus 4+ years of technical engineering experience in various programming languages.
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field plus 6+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with windows-drivers-rs (WDR) and Windows Driver Kit along with WDM/WDF/KMDF/UMDF models.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools throughout the software lifecycle.
  • Working knowledge of OS primitives such as memory management and threading.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement Windows drivers in Rust, advancing existing frameworks.
  • Utilize AI tools independently for the software development lifecycle, ensuring quality and ownership of AI-generated code.
  • Lead architecture and design discussions, creating proposals and specifications for Rust driver architecture.
  • Develop comprehensive plans for quality assurance and testing, enhancing the test suite and integrating automation.
  • Conduct complex debugging and root-cause analysis across driver and hardware boundaries using specialized tools like WinDbg.
  • Ensure security and accessibility by applying best practices and collaborating with security stakeholders.
  • Organize tasks into actionable roadmaps, maintaining transparency with stakeholders on progress and issues.
  • Collaborate with hardware and firmware teams to define requirements for consumer products.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules.
  • Professional development opportunities and ongoing training programs.
  • Employee discounts and wellness programs.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and ship Windows drivers in Rust, both kernel-mode and user-mode, using and advancing the windows-drivers-rs (WDR) framework, WDF/KMDF/UMDF interop, and safe abstractions over native Windows APIs, applying and extrapolating best practices to reliably build code, following well-established methods while applying best practices for new code development.
  • Apply AI-native development practices by independently using appropriate AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle in a disciplined manner, taking responsibility for the content of AI-generated designs, code, and other assets, and helping other engineers do the same.
  • Lead discussions for, and own, driver architecture and design decisions with minimal technical oversight, creating proposals and complex design specifications for Rust driver architecture, developing design documents, defining memory-safety boundaries and FFI/interop with existing C/C++ drivers, and ensuring the architecture meets security, performance, and compliance requirements.
  • Drive quality and test automation by independently creating clear plans for testing and assuring quality, adding new tests, removing antiquated tests, and aggregating tests to improve the test suite, continually integrating automation into testing, and applying metrics to drive the quality and stability of code.
  • Own complex debugging and retrospective root-cause analysis: kernel debugging, crash / memory-dump analysis (WinDbg), and ETW/tracing across driver, firmware, and hardware boundaries to identify root causes of problems.
  • Uphold security-as-code, privacy, safety, and accessibility by applying security practices and establishing code invariants so each layer is independently secure, partnering with security stakeholders on threat models and security invariants, and driving the correct processes to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility across the driver and services stack.
  • Organize work into an actionable roadmap by breaking work into smaller sets of tasks as part of an overall roadmap, and alerting stakeholders as to status, initiating actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems as appropriate.
  • Partner on hardware/software co-design by collaborating with electrical, system, firmware, and architecture teams (and IHV/OEM partners) to determine requirements and define features for high-volume consumer products.
  • Share learnings and strengthen the team by sharing investigation findings and Rust systems/driver patterns with the team, participating in code reviews, providing constructive feedback, contributing to a solid review culture, and maintaining communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • 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.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python.
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience with the windows-drivers-rs (WDR) / Windows Driver Kit and WDM/WDF/KMDF/UMDF driver models.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools and practices across the software development lifecycle.
  • Working knowledge of OS primitives: memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading, and ACPI.
  • Proven ability to land safe, cross-cutting changes in large, complex, unfamiliar codebases while preserving correctness and performance.
  • Experience reviewing HW schematics and a solid understanding of the software lifecycle in a device-development environment.
  • Contributions to Rust OSS or other systems / driver open-source projects.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive requirements into solutions and collaborate effectively with internal and external (IHV/OEM) partners.
  • Deep, demonstrable Rust expertise, including unsafe Rust, FFI/interop, ownership/lifetimes, and building safe abstractions over low-level or OS APIs.
  • Experience in design, implementation, debugging, and testing of Windows operating system drivers and/or Windows system software (kernel-mode and/or user-mode).
  • Hands-on experience with kernel debugging and memory-dump analysis (WinDbg, ETW/trace).
  • Experience working with hardware devices and hardware/software debugging.


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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
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