Senior Software Engineer, Windows - AI Security & Governance (Elara)

Omnissa•Atlanta, GA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Omnissa is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build Elara’s Windows agent, a lightweight, native, always-on component that helps enterprises discover, monitor, and govern AI use across devices. The agent provides visibility into AI applications in use, network traffic destinations, and the handling of sensitive data. This role helps establish the product’s foundational architecture and contributes to shared cross-platform components. The team uses AI coding agents in design, implementation, testing, and debugging. Engineers remain accountable for architecture, security decisions, and final review. Documentation, CI, and test automation provide guardrails for safe development, and reusable tools and agent skills help the team build on one another’s work. The role focuses on Windows internals, native Windows APIs, system-level programming, and network security, with an emphasis on reliable, resource-efficient security components built using Rust. The position is hybrid and based in Atlanta, Georgia, or Mountain View, California. Travel is not expected.

Requirements

At least 5 years of software engineering experience, including significant experience developing native Windows applications, services, or system-level components.
Strong programming expertise in Rust.
Deep understanding of Windows internals, including processes, threads, memory management, IPC, file systems, and networking.
Experience with Windows APIs such as Win32, ETW, WFP, Windows Services, or Windows SDK.
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP/HTTPS, VPNs, proxies, and network traffic inspection.
Experience developing multithreaded, asynchronous, event-driven, or long-running background applications.
Understanding of secure coding practices, memory safety, concurrency, authentication, and encryption.
Experience debugging, profiling, and troubleshooting native Windows applications.

Nice To Haves

Experience building endpoint security, EDR, DLP, VPN, ZTNA, SASE, or enterprise device-management products.
Hands-on experience with WFP callouts, ETW providers or consumers, Windows Filtering Platform APIs, or native security event monitoring.
Experience with Windows kernel-mode development, file-system minifilter drivers, or Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF).
Experience using on-device Small Language Models (SLMs).
Familiarity with Windows security architecture, access tokens, process privileges, service isolation, and protected processes.
Familiarity with Rust Tokio, Serde, windows/windows-sys crates, and native FFI integration.
Experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and secure communication with cloud-based services.
Knowledge of Windows code signing, MSI/MSIX packaging, enterprise software deployment, and secure update mechanisms.
Familiarity with browser extensions, AI applications, or enterprise AI governance.
Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

Make foundational architecture decisions for the Elara Windows agent and co-design shared components across platforms.
Write specifications, design documents, and interface contracts that engineers and AI agents can use.
Build guardrails for safe agent-assisted development.
Design, develop, and maintain native Windows endpoint security agents using Rust and Windows system APIs.
Integrate with ETW, WFP, Win32 APIs, and Windows Services for process monitoring, network visibility, and security enforcement.
Build reusable cross-platform security components and native Windows integrations for enterprise endpoint environments.
Optimize CPU utilization, memory footprint, event-processing throughput, and latency in continuously running Windows services.
Build resilient background services with crash recovery, secure installation and updates, and tamper-resistance mechanisms.
Troubleshoot complex Windows issues using WinDbg, ETW tracing, Windows Performance Analyzer, and other native debugging tools.