Senior Windows Endpoint Security Engineer (Remote)

Cisco Systems; Baton Rouge (LA); Remote; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Isovalent is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Windows agent team, focusing on runtime security for a Windows-based endpoint agent. You will leverage Go, C, and C++ to implement secure, efficient security capabilities close to the operating system.

You will collaborate with engineers across Linux and Windows, investigate platform behavior, and contribute to architecture discussions to deliver high-performance security software for enterprise workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with systems programming using C or C++, including multi-threaded and multi-process applications.
• 2+ years of OS fundamentals, including threads, processes, file systems, networking, IPC.
• Experience with Windows system programming, Win32 APIs, File I/O, Winsock, and API hooking concepts.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex software systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance runtime security features for a Windows-based endpoint agent.
• Design and implement systems-level endpoint security and monitoring capabilities using Go, C, and C++.
• Participate in architecture, design, and implementation discussions with senior engineers and architects.
• Develop software using Windows system programming interfaces, including Win32 APIs, File I/O, and Winsock.
• Investigate Windows platform behavior and interactions between user-mode and kernel-mode components.
• Develop multi-threaded and multi-process applications and system-level software.
• Debug and resolve complex issues and perform code reviews to improve quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate runtime security requirements into reliable software solutions.

Skills

Go

C

C++

Windows API

Win32 APIs

File I/O

Winsock

Multithreading

Kernel-mode concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in software

Master's degree in software

Job description

Cisco Isovalent is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Windows agent team, focusing on runtime security for a Windows-based endpoint agent. You will leverage Go, C, and C++ to implement secure, efficient security capabilities close to the operating system.

You will collaborate with engineers across Linux and Windows, investigate platform behavior, and contribute to architecture discussions to deliver high-performance security software for enterprise workloads.