Senior Software Engineer - Windows App

Location: Redmond, Washington, United States; 3 days per week in-office

Salary: USD $119,800–$234,700 per year across the U.S.; USD $160,200–$261,000 per year in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.

Company

Build the Windows App, a unified client for connecting to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, and remote PCs.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and ship native Windows client features using modern C++ and C#.
• Integrate application components with Win32, WinRT, COM, Windows services, and operating-system APIs.
• Own scenarios covering resource discovery, connection setup, authentication, OS integration, reliability, and performance.
• Develop secure, scalable components spanning processes, threads, services, client applications, and cloud-backed experiences.
• Diagnose concurrency, memory, networking, latency, reliability, and operating-system issues using debuggers, dumps, traces, logs, and telemetry.
• Collaborate with Windows, Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, identity, security, design, and product teams while mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
• Production experience designing, implementing, debugging, and shipping software in modern C++; C# experience is also valuable.
• Experience building native Windows applications, platform components, services, or systems-level software.
• Knowledge of Windows technologies including Win32, WinRT, COM, RPC, Windows services, inter-process communication, and core Windows APIs.
• Experience with networking, authentication, identity, remote desktop, virtualization, or virtual desktop infrastructure technologies.
• Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud and applicable customer or government security screening requirements.

Nice to have

• Master's degree and 6+ years of experience, or bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience.
• Experience with Windows App SDK, WinUI, XAML, WebView2, MSIX, Microsoft Entra ID, MSAL, or Web Account Manager.
• Experience debugging multi-process, multi-threaded, performance-critical native code.
• Experience building secure and accessible enterprise-scale client software with telemetry-driven development and live-site operations.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, fast-moving environment focused on technical depth, customer focus, engineering craftsmanship, and end-to-end ownership.
• Opportunity to contribute to performance, reliability, accessibility, security, testability, and maintainability standards.
• Benefits and additional compensation may be available.