Senior Software Engineer, Zero Trust Client

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in plan

Health & Welfare benefits

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Seattle is seeking a Senior Windows Software Engineer to join the Zero Trust team. You will work on the Zero Trust desktop client that secures devices and routes traffic to our global network, applying advanced web filtering and Zero Trust policies.

You’ll predominantly use Rust alongside platform-native languages to implement high-performance networking code across desktop platforms.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of Windows internals, kernel-mode programming, and network protocols.
• Experience in low-level Windows driver development, ideally network drivers.
• Excellent programming with high-quality, well-documented code.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement major development projects for our Zero Trust desktop client.
• Collaborate with product managers and teams to deliver customer-impacting features.
• Write testable, well-documented networking code across desktop platforms.

Skills

Windows internals

Rust

C/C++

Multithreading

Networking protocols

Debugging

VPN tech

Security protocols

Code review

Design & docs

Tools

Swift

C#

Python

Job description

About Us

At the company, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. the company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by the company all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. the company was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At the company, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a \"normalized\" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations

Austin, Seattle

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Windows Software Engineer to join our Zero Trust team. You will be working on the Zero Trust desktop client, which protects corporate devices by securely and privately sending traffic from those devices to the company’s global network, which can apply advanced web filtering and advanced Zero Trust policies.

What you'll do

In your role, you will predominantly be using Rust along platform-native languages & APIs to implement high-performance networking code that runs on multiple desktop platforms. You’ll be expected to improve the code quality and to build solid, testable, and well-documented foundations. You will be most successful in this role if you have a good understanding of Windows internals (virtual memory, multi-threading, process lifecycle, kernel programing, system APIs, etc.) and networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, QUIC, H/3, proxying, etc.). You will also have to interact with other languages, such as Swift, C#, C, and python.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to make significant contributions to the design and implementation of major development projects, working closely with our product managers and other teams to implement customer-impacting features. You will work on stimulating problems born out of the scale of our deployment, and the stringent quality, performance, and security requirements of our product.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• In-depth knowledge of Windows internals, kernel-mode programming, and network protocols


• Experience in low-level Windows driver development, ideally network drivers


• Excellent programming skills, with experience writing very high-quality and low-complexity code with thorough documentation.


• Strong experience writing easily-testable and thoroughly-tested code (e.g. using dependency injection with the right abstractions)


• Great experience using lower-level languages, such as Rust, C, C++


• Very comfortable writing multithreaded, asynchronous code


• Strong experience with debugging network-related problems


• An understanding of how VPN technologies work, and the trade-offs between privacy, security, and anonymity


• Good understanding of, and experience with, security protocols and standards


• Experience mentoring engineers and raising a team's technical bar through code review and knowledge sharing


• Experience owning technical designs end-to-end, writing specs and design docs that coordinate work across engineers and teams


• A track record of debugging and resolving complex issues that span team and system boundaries


• Empathetic, proactive, and constructive communication skills, verbal and written

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Seattle-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $185,000 -$254,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in the company’s equity plan.

Benefits

the company offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance


• Dental Insurance


• Vision Insurance


• Flexible Spending Accounts


• Commuter Spending Accounts


• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits


• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program


• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance


• Life & Accident Insurance


• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan


• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave


• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

What Makes the company Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo

Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by the company’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project

In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1

We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for ever