Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation

$119,800 – $234,700/yr

Setup: On-site
Location: Redmond, Washington
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 8, 2026

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to develop and harden Windows drivers in Rust, including kernel-mode and user-mode drivers, WDR/WDK, WDF/KMDF/UMDF, safe abstractions, FFI, testing, debugging, security, and hardware/software co-design. The role requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least four years of technical engineering experience, with equivalent experience accepted. The typical U.S. base pay range is USD 119,800–234,700 per year, with higher ranges for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.

Required Skills

Rust
Windows drivers
WDF/KMDF/UMDF
Kernel debugging
Memory analysis
FFI/interop
Test automation
AI tools

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Required Previous Experiences: At least 4 years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
Experience with WDR, Windows Driver Kit, and WDM/WDF/KMDF/UMDF driver models
Experience designing, implementing, debugging, and testing Windows operating system drivers or system software
Hands-on kernel debugging and memory-dump analysis with WinDbg and ETW/trace
Experience working with hardware devices and hardware/software debugging
Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
At least 6 years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
At least 8 years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Rust, or Python
Experience using AI-assisted development tools and practices across the software development lifecycle
Working knowledge of OS primitives, including memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading, and ACPI
Ability to land safe, cross-cutting changes in large, complex, unfamiliar codebases while preserving correctness and performance
Experience reviewing hardware schematics and understanding the software lifecycle in a device-development environment
Contributions to Rust open-source or systems/driver open-source projects
Ability to drive requirements into solutions and collaborate with internal and external IHV/OEM partners
Deep Rust expertise in unsafe Rust, FFI/interop, ownership/lifetimes, and safe abstractions over low-level or OS APIs
Experience designing, implementing, debugging, and testing Windows operating system drivers or system software
Hands-on kernel debugging and memory-dump analysis with WinDbg and ETW/trace
Experience working with hardware devices and hardware/software debugging

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