BeyondTrust

Staff Software Development Engineer - Windows Endpoint

Who can apply: US-based role. The employer has not said which states are eligible — confirm before applying.
Location as listed by the employer: “Remote Canada | Remote United States”
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About this role

BeyondTrust is hiring for a Staff Software Development Engineer - Windows Endpoint role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • Deep Windows kernel internals - the I/O manager and IRP flow, the object manager, process and thread structures, memory management, the Windows security model (tokens, SIDs, ACLs) - backed by production kernel-mode driv…
  • Hands-on kernel-mode driver work for security enforcement. You've shipped a file-system minifilter or comparable callback-based driver, and you can reason about IRQL, synchronization, safe user-buffer access, and reentr…
  • Driver signing and deployment reality: WHQL attestation, EV code signing, the WDK and WDF/KMDF, and the operational cost of shipping kernel code to a large install base.
  • The Windows isolation model - job objects, silos, Windows containers, AppContainer - and how it intersects with kernel-level security tooling.
  • Kernel debugging and performance tooling: WinDbg and KD, live-kernel and crash-dump analysis, ETW, Driver Verifier, and the checked-build workflow.
  • 8+ years in systems-level software engineering, with real depth in Windows kernel development.
  • Demonstrated AI-first development. We build this platform through agentic tooling. AI-driven design exploration, code generation, adversarial plan review, and automated pre-merge quality gates are how work ships here, n…
  • A working grasp of systems design patterns and their tradeoffs at the kernel/user-mode boundary.

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