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About 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.
What they're looking for
- 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
- Read requirements to find gaps and risks, propose simplifications, and explain tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on Windows systems and kernel-driver craft
- 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
More about this 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...
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