Software Development Engineer 2

Candidate Requirements

Summary: The Driver Platform team builds the foundational systems that power how all Windows device drivers are developed, validated, certified, and delivered. The mission is to provide an end‑to‑end platform that enables the ecosystem to ship secure, reliable, high‑quality device drivers at scale. The Team owns Core driver frameworks and PNP (plug and play) platform tooling on Windows for device driver installation, servicing, lifecycle management, and Developer kits (WDK, HLK) that enable driver development and certification.

Role Expectations

• Build and help validate and ship next‑generation driver platform components (WDK, HLK, Platform, etc) improving security & reliability.
• Debug complex driver/kernel‑mode issues across diverse hardware stacks.
• Investigate security issues and identify vulnerability patterns to help secure the driver ecosystem.
• Partner with Windows teams and hardware partners to deliver robust, certifiable drivers.
• Drive AI‑first engineering through creation and integration of AI agents across development, validation, debugging, and certification processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/related field or equivalent experience.
• Strong C/C++ experience.
• Ability to meet company's security screening requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in one or more of: Driver or kernel‑mode development.
• Native C/C++ systems programming.
• Complex systems debugging.
• Verification tools (static or runtime).
• Security research.
• Building or integrating AI agents.

Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain evidence of perseverance in solving complex issues, strong debugging skills, and consistency in taking tasks through to completion without breaking compatibility.

Typical Day

Triaging bugs, requests for help on WDK, HLK and platform issues, debugging them and helping root cause and fix them as an app, testing the updates to the platform and kits and helping validate them to help ship the quarterly updates to the kits, and the monthly updates to the platform. The role will consist of approximately 25–30% triaging issues and bugs, 25–30% debugging and root cause analysis, and the remaining time fixing and updating code to resolve problems.

Ideal Background

Driver development experience, kernel mode debug experience. Experience with any driver stack, network, filesystems, or other device stacks.