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Job Description

Senior Software Engineer role focused on owning critical Windows native-code systems and modernizing a mature C/C++ codebase.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain critical areas of a large, established Windows C/C++ codebase.
  • Modernize legacy components using C++17/20, RAII, smart pointers, STL, and safer resource-management practices.
  • Identify and prioritize technical debt, architectural risks, obsolete dependencies, and maintainability gaps.
  • Refactor tightly coupled or complex modules while preserving existing behavior and compatibility.
  • Diagnose crashes, memory corruption, leaks, deadlocks, race conditions, and performance problems using Visual Studio, WinDbg, and Windows diagnostic tools.
  • Improve automated testing, static analysis, logging, and CI/CD practices for existing components.
  • Manage compiler, SDK, library, and third-party dependency upgrades.
  • Establish and promote modern C++ coding, architecture, and code-review standards.
  • Mentor engineers working in complex or unfamiliar areas of the codebase.
  • Partner with engineering leadership to balance feature delivery, modernization, reliability, and technical-debt reduction.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional C/C++ software development experience.
  • Demonstrated experience refactoring and modernizing large legacy C++ codebases.
  • Strong knowledge of modern C++: RAII, smart pointers, STL, concurrency, object lifetime, and resource management.
  • Strong knowledge of Win32 APIs, Windows processes/threads, DLLs, synchronization, IPC, services, and file I/O.
  • Experience developing and debugging with ATL, COM.
  • Windows crash-dump and performance analysis.
  • Experience debugging complex native-code issues with Visual Studio and WinDbg.
  • 1-2 years experience managing projects.
  • Strong analytical approach: ability to dive into data, analyze large data sets, and recognize patterns.
  • Ability to influence and impact others.
  • Ability to manage time effectively; high levels of responsibility, organization, and proactive execution.
  • Ability to train and mentor others.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Authorization to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Technologies

  • C++, C++17, C++20, RAII, smart pointers, STL
  • Visual Studio, WinDbg
  • Win32 APIs, ATL, COM
  • Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Google Test
  • CI/CD, Windows diagnostic tools, Windows crash-dump analysis

Location and Salary

  • Reston, VA (hybrid)
  • USD 170,000 - 195,000 per year

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