Job description 

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience. 
• Proven design and problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on quality and engineering excellence. 
• Excellent debugging skills, hands-on knowledge of WinDBG is desirable 
• Proven communication skills, both verbal and written. 
• The ability to work well in a diverse, global, team-focused environment.   
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent preferred. 
• Experience with relevant programming skills in C/C++ 
• Ability to understand unfamiliar code bases, and debug multi-threaded, and highly scalable applications.   
• Knowledge of Windows internals and Experience in working with Windows system level programming is desirable. 
• Demonstrated results working with a global team. 

Responsibilities

• Fixing externally and internally found security vulnerabilities and all the potential variants. 
• Analyze, debug, and troubleshoot issues reported in windows operating system components, including performance optimization, system crashes, and compatibility problems. 
• Crafting high-quality, bug-free fixes with minimum application compatibility risk. 
• Participate in code reviews and collaborate with peers to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards. 
• Collaborating with escalation engineers and other partner teams across Microsoft to debug, develop, test and ship updates. 
• Finding ways to improve products, tools, and processes for long-term benefit for Microsoft and customers. 
• Mentoring junior engineers in the team.