Contract - Sr Engineer, Networking SDET (NTD)

Location: Onsite in Redmond, WA, United States; not open to remote work

Pay range: $69.78–$125.57 USD

Company

hirify.global Technology Development, a hirify.global subsidiary based in Redmond, Washington, creates future hardware and software technology and researches North American technologies for interactive entertainment products.

What you will do

• Build, maintain, and improve automated tests and SDET tooling for hirify.global systems.
• Develop and test networking code and functionality.
• Perform deep troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for low-level concurrent software.
• Collaborate with development, test, and engineering teams to resolve defects and improve reliability.
• Create practical solutions to difficult technical problems.
• Support CI systems and automated regression detection.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering or software test engineering experience.
• Strong C and modern C++ skills with experience developing high-performance, low-level software.
• Strong software-development understanding of networking, including implementing, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting network protocols and networked applications.
• Hands-on experience with TCP/IP and UDP socket APIs, connection management, packet handling, timeouts, retries, and error handling.
• Experience implementing and testing TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, HTTPS, and TLS/SSL functionality.
• Experience with packet-level networking and traffic analysis using Wireshark, tcpdump, or similar tools.
• Experience developing automated functional, integration, stress, reliability, concurrency, and failure/recovery tests for networking software.
• Strong multithreading and concurrency skills, including development and debugging of low-level concurrent C/C++ code.
• Experience debugging complex networking software with debuggers, logs, packet captures, core dumps, and other low-level techniques.
• Experience building and running software across Windows, Linux, and embedded environments; degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• The role requires hands-on programming with network protocols and socket APIs and is not focused on network administration, cloud networking, infrastructure deployment, network configuration, or network management.
• Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

Culture & Benefits

• Contract position with benefits through the employing agency.
• Agency benefits may include medical insurance, an employee assistance program, and paid sick leave, subject to eligibility, elections, and plan terms.
• Inclusive work environment emphasizing collaboration, curiosity, creativity, empathy, and respect.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.