Senior Software Engineer - Windows App

Senior Software Engineer - Windows App

United States, Washington, Redmond

Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200047144

Date posted

Oct 13, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

About the team The Windows Cloud Experiences team builds the Windows App, the unified client for connecting to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, and remote PCs. We create secure, reliable, and high performance client experiences that bring together native Windows capabilities and cloud-powered services across devices and form factors.

We are looking for a senior engineer who enjoys working close to the Windows platform and can turn complex operating-system, networking, identity, and remoting challenges into polished customer experiences. This role is centered on Windows client and platform engineering, not only surface-level user interface development.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on Windows App, you will own important areas of the native Windows client from architecture through implementation, validation, release, and live-site support. You will work across application, platform, and service boundaries to make remote Windows experiences feel secure, responsive, dependable, and deeply integrated with the operating system.

You will join a collaborative, fast-moving team that values technical depth, customer focus, engineering craftsmanship, and end-to-end ownership. You will also help other engineers grow through design guidance, code reviews, debugging support, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship native Windows client features using modern C++, with C# used where appropriate, and integrate deeply with Win32, WinRT, COM, Windows services, and operating-system APIs.
• Own Windows App scenarios across resource discovery, connection setup, authentication, OS integration, reliability, and performance.
• Develop secure, scalable, and maintainable components that span processes, threads, services, client applications, and cloud-backed experiences.
• Diagnose complex problems using debuggers, dumps, traces, logs, and telemetry, including issues involving concurrency, memory, networking, latency, and operating-system integration.
• Drive features through the full engineering lifecycle: architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, experimentation, monitoring, and live-site response.
• Partner with Windows, Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, identity, security, design, and product teams to deliver coherent end-to-end customer experiences.
• Raise the engineering bar for performance, reliability, accessibility, security, testability, and long-term maintainability.
• Mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and create clarity in ambiguous or cross-team problem spaces.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud backgro