Windows and Linux Platforms Engineer

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with company match

Health, dental and vision

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. is seeking a software engineer to develop and manage install/upgrade paths for Windows and Linux, ensuring reliable behavior for non-administrative users.

You will own packaging, updates, and permissions as core product concerns while collaborating with security and inference teams. In the first 90 days, you will deliver a practical installation path on one target platform with diagnostics and recovery capabilities, demonstrating cross-platform adaptability and a focus on user

Qualifications

• Substantial Windows or Linux engineering experience.
• Willingness to learn across boundaries.
• Have made complex software reliable for non-technical users and can describe how.
• Handle packaging, updates and permissions as product problems.

Responsibilities

• Build installation, service lifecycle, device integration, permissions and updates for Windows and Linux configurations.
• Collaborate with inference and security engineers on accelerator access and protected credentials.
• Test differences between platforms to ensure reliable behavior, not identical promises.

Skills

Windows experience

Linux experience

Learning mindset

Packaging updates

Non-technical usability

Job description

You make the same promise hold across Windows and Linux, where the platform details decide whether the thing is reliable and trustworthy. Much of this is making complex software work for people who are not administrators and should not have to be.

The work:

Build installation, service lifecycle, device integration, permissions and updates for supported Windows and Linux configurations. Work with inference and security engineers on accelerator access and protected credentials. Test differences rather than promising identical behavior everywhere.

What good looks like:

In your first 90 days, deliver a supported installation and upgrade path on one target platform with diagnostics and recovery.

Evidence we look for:

Bring substantial experience on Windows or Linux and a willingness to learn across boundaries. Show how you have made complex software reliable for people who are not system administrators.

Required:

• Substantial Windows or Linux engineering experience
• Willingness to learn across the boundary rather than staying on one side
• You have made complex software reliable for non-technical users, and can describe how
• You handle packaging, updates and permissions as product problems

Nice to have:

• Both platforms
• Driver, service, or systemd-level work
• Enterprise deployment tooling

The exercise:

Design a migration that preserves the user's vault and permissions when an operating-system or driver update changes behavior.

How we work:

We work together in the office, five days a week, and you can be based at any of our garages: Kirkland Garage (Kirkland, WA); UAE Garage (Dubai, Dubai). We hire across the United States, India and the UAE. We are remote-friendly around family: if you need to work from home some days to look after the people you love, we arrange that with you one person at a time, and we encourage people to use it rather than tough it out.

Pay:

We publish what we pay. Indicative ranges by market and level are on our compensation page, and they are realistic going market rates rather than headline numbers. Wherever we hire we pay at least the local market rate, and for full-time roles our floor is a living wage, never the statutory minimum. Compensation is reviewed every year and on promotion.

Equity:

Every full-time teammate gets stock options. Four-year vesting with a one-year cliff, sized to role, level and impact, and confirmed in writing at offer. High performers earn refresh grants.

Bonus and commission:

An annual performance bonus tied to clear company and personal goals, indicatively 10 to 20 percent of base for non-sales roles. Customer-facing roles carry on-target earnings, typically a 50/50 split of base and variable, with uncapped commission and accelerators above quota.

Health and peace of mind:

Medical, dental and vision for you and your family, plus life and disability cover. We have chosen the highest plan tier available to us rather than the cheapest one that clears the bar, because the point of this is that you never have to think about it. The specific plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.

401(k) with company matching:

A 401(k) with a company match, so the years you spend here compound into something that is yours whatever happens next. The match formula is confirmed in your offer letter.

AI tokens:

A budget of AI tokens of your own, because a company that says you should own your AI cannot be the company that rations it. Use them on the work and on whatever you are curious about.

Gym, and the everyday things:

A gym membership, and a corporate benefits programme with its own app, where you redeem real discounts with a long list of retailers on the ordinary purchases of a life.

Family:

We are remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time, and we would rather you took it than toughed it out.

Referrals:

Refer someone we hire full-time who stays a year and you get $1,000 plus $10,000 in referral stock-based equity, on top of your own package.