Windows Engineer, C/C++

CrowdStrike

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Origin: • 🇨🇦 Canada

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💰 CA$115,000 - CA$165,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

Linux

About the role

Design and build software applications to enhance the efficacy of our Windows dynamic analysis environments.
Collaborate with product management teams to identify and integrate new features into the threat analysis platform, ensuring effective analysis and reporting on the latest malware families.
Work jointly with security researchers across teams to gain a deep understanding of the evolving threat landscape.
Drive innovation by thinking creatively and developing novel approaches for threat detection.
Research and development of dynamic analysis capabilities across core OS subsystems such as file systems, memory, process, and networking.
Create and enhance threat analysis capabilities for Windows operating systems and contribute to Linux and Mac analysis capabilities.
Collaborate closely with developers, site reliability engineers, and security researchers to build applications that identify and thwart malicious actors.
Help set the technical direction for visibility and detection of Windows threats within the platform.

5+ years in-depth knowledge of software design and extensive development experience in C/C++.
Strong understanding of low-level Windows internals and Windows API, encompassing both user space and kernel space.
Proven experience debugging memory corruptions, contentions, and system performance issues.
Solid grasp of networking fundamentals.
Experience working effectively within a team to ship major features and releases.
Bonus Points: Experience with Sandbox technology.
Bonus Points: Experience developing endpoint security software products and systems.
Bonus Points: Experience with system tracing.
Bonus Points: Experience with Linux user mode and/or kernel programming.
Bonus Points: Experience with Mac OS user mode programming.
Must maintain legal entitlement to work in Canada.