Software Design Engineer

Job Title:
Software Engineer (Systems / OS-Level Engineering)

Work Location: Redmond, WA. Onsite – Building 50

Duration: 5 months

Work Schedule: Monday–Friday, 40 hours/week

Pay Rate Range: $55 to $60/hr

• Fine-tune and improve sophisticated software implementation projects
• Gather, analyze, and document system requirements and specifications
• Design solutions using newer APIs to replace legacy implementations
• Independently analyze and understand complex system architectures
• Implement and customize system software based on client requirements
• Prepare detailed software specifications and test plans
• Code new programs and create test data
• Modify existing programs to meet new standards and perform unit testing
• Create migration packages for system, user, and implementation testing
• Perform post-implementation validation and bug fixes
• Provide quality assurance reviews

• Write clean, maintainable systems-level code in C and C++
• Work effectively in a Windows OS development environment (strongly preferred)
• Debug and resolve issues in legacy systems using:
  • Windows Debugger
  • Instrumentation and trace analysis
  • WPP/ETW trace collection

• Disqualifiers
  • Insufficient proficiency in reading and writing code
  • Less than 3 years of relevant work experience
• Education & Experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
  • 5–7 years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong foundation in computer science (data structures, algorithms, software design)
• Large-scale systems software design and development experience
• Strong troubleshooting and unit testing skills for both legacy and modern systems
• Hands-on experience writing systems-level C/C++ code
• Strong operating systems knowledge
• Proficiency with debugging tools, including Windows Debugger and instrumentation-based analysis

• Strong experience in operating systems development (C/C++)
• Experience with scripting languages (Power Shell, C# preferred)
• Prior experience developing performance benchmarks
• Knowledge of networking performance metrics:
  • Throughput
  • Latency
  • Cycles per byte

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