Senior Staff C++ Windows Systems Engineer

Talanto; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Vacation and sick time

Parental leave options

Retirement options

Education reimbursement

In-office perks

Job summary

Talanto in San Jose, CA is seeking a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer to drive the evolution of our Client Connector Agent on Windows. You will own core service-layer components, including RPC, session handling, and data pipelines to ensure performance, scalability, and maintainability.

The role requires 8+ years of production C++ experience, strong Windows internals, and a track record of shipping enterprise desktop software.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production software engineering experience with strong C++ (C++14/17) expertise.
• Solid grasp of Windows internals including services, user sessions, security tokens, IPC, and process/thread lifetime
• Experience debugging multithreaded C++ including races, deadlocks, iterator invalidation, and use-after-free
• Proficiency with diagnostic tools like WinDbg, ETW, Process Monitor, and crash dump analysis
• Track record of shipping and maintaining an enterprise desktop or endpoint product

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features across the CCA service, user-mode UI, and supporting subsystems including RPC server, session handler, data handler, and tunnel telemetry
• Diagnose and fix complex production issues such as service crashes, race conditions, lifetime bugs, and cross-process synchronization problems
• Improve reliability of long-running Windows service code including cleanup/shutdown paths and inter-process communication
• Work on VDI-specific flows including ZCC VDI SMB tunnel traffic accounting and session lifecycle management
• Review peers' code, raise the quality bar, and mentor other engineers on Windows systems programming

Skills

C++

Windows internals

Multithreading

WinDbg

RPC/IPC

Code review/mentoring

Tools

MS-RPC

Named Pipes

COM

Process Monitor

Crash dump analysis

Job description

Talanto in San Jose, CA is seeking a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer to drive the evolution of our Client Connector Agent on Windows. You will own core service-layer components, including RPC, session handling, and data pipelines to ensure performance, scalability, and maintainability.

The role requires 8+ years of production C++ experience, strong Windows internals, and a track record of shipping enterprise desktop software.