Senior C++ Developer

Optimize Search Group; Coppell (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimize Search Group is seeking a senior systems engineer to own core features end-to-end—from initial research and architectural design through to shipping and production. This hands-on role touches a codebase that is critical to our platform and offers real impact across the product.

You will collaborate with product, web development, security, and field engineering teams, work across Windows, macOS, and Linux, and tackle enterprise-scale challenges with a focus on performance and correctness.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on low-level software development in C/C++
• Deep understanding of OS concepts, memory management, threads
• Experience navigating large unfamiliar codebases
• Experience building large-scale, real-time, multi-platform apps
• Strong low-level design instincts for performance and correctness

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of features from research to shipping
• Collaborate with product, web development, security, and field engineering
• Address enterprise customer challenges with robust technical solutions
• Work across Windows, macOS, and Linux in a multi-platform environment

Skills

C/C++ development

OS concepts

Large codebases

Real-time apps

Performance reasoning

Job description

Duration: Full Time

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will be part of a focused R&D group that owns features end-to-end: from research and architectural design through to production. This is hands-on, high-impact work on a codebase that very few engineers in the world ever get to touch.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Take end-to-end ownership of features — from initial research and architecture through to shipping and production
• Collaborate closely with product, web development, security, and field engineering teams
• Engage directly with enterprise customer challenges and translate them into robust technical solutions
• Work across Windows, macOS, and Linux in a true multi-platform environment

WHAT YOU NEED

• 6+ years of hands-on low-level software development in C++ or C, ideally using modern standards (C++17/20)
• Deep understanding of systems internals — OS concepts, memory management, process and thread models
• Demonstrated ability to navigate, understand, and contribute to very large, unfamiliar codebases
• Experience building large-scale, real-time, multi-platform applications
• Strong low-level design instincts and the ability to reason about performance and correctness simultaneously

NICE TO HAVE

• Familiarity with network protocols and network topology — TCP/IP, TLS, proxies
• Academic or industry research background in operating systems, compilers, or computer architecture

WHO THRIVES HERE