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

Job Description:

We are Omnissa!

Omnissa is the first AI-driven digital work platform, built to support flexible, secure, work-from anywhere experiences. We integrate industry-leading solutions—including Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Digital Employee Experience, and Security & Compliance—into a seamless, autonomous workspace that adapts to how people work. Our platform boosts employee engagement while optimizing IT operations, security, and cost.

Guided by our Core Values—Act in Alignment, Build Trust, Foster Inclusiveness, Drive Efficiency, and Maximize Customer Value—we’re growing rapidly and committed to delivering meaningful impact. If you're passionate about shaping the future of work, we’d love to hear from you.

At Omnissa, we are committed to maintaining a fair, consistent, and secure hiring process for all candidates. As part of this approach, we use standard interview and verification practices designed to ensure alignment and protect both candidates and the organization. These practices are applied thoughtfully and with respect for candidate privacy.

What is the opportunity?

Elara is a new Omnissa product line that helps enterprises discover, monitor, and govern how AI is used across their devices. We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build the Elara Windows agent. It’s a lightweight, native, always-on component that shows organizations which AI applications are in use, where network traffic is going, and how sensitive data is handled.

Why Elara, and Why Now

Enterprises are adopting AI faster than they can see it, let alone govern it. Elara exists to close that gap, and you’d be one of the first engineers to shape it. We’re building Elara the way software is going to be built: agentic from day one. We’re also defining what agent-driven engineering means in the context of an enterprise security product. Engineers on Elara work with AI coding agents every day, delegating implementation, test generation, and refactoring. That frees their own time for what agents can’t do, which is system design, security judgment, and careful review of low-level code where mistakes are expensive. We’re writing this playbook as we go, and you’ll help write it. This role requires strong expertise in Windows internals, native Windows APIs, system-level programming, and network security, with an emphasis on building reliable and resource-efficient security components using Rust.

How We Work

• Agents are part of the team. AI coding agents are built into how we design, build, test, and debug. Our approved tools include Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot.
• Humans own the judgment. Engineers own architecture, security decisions, and final review, and are accountable for everything that ships.
• Guardrails are first-class work. Excellent documentation, strong CI, and test automation are what let us move fast safely. We build on each other’s work. Reusable agent skills, prompts are tooling means you start productive on day one and every improvement benefits the whole team.

What You'll Do

Architecture & Foundations

• Make the foundational architecture decisions for the Elara Windows agent, and co-design the shared components across platforms.
• Write specs, design docs, and interface contracts clear enough for both engineers and AI agents to execute against.
• Build the guardrails that make agent-assisted development safe.

Windows Endpoint Security & Systems Development

• Design, develop, and maintain native Windows endpoint security agents using Rust and Windows system APIs.
• Integrate with Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), Windows Filtering Platform (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.

Performance, Reliability & Security

• Optimize CPU utilization, memory footprint, event-processing throughput, and latency for continuously running Windows services.
• Build resilient background services with crash recovery, secure installation, updates, and tamper-resistance mechanisms.
• Troubleshoot complex Windows issues using WinDbg, ETW tracing, Windows Performance Analyzer, and other native debugging tools.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building endpoint security, EDR, DLP, VPN, ZTNA, SASE, or enterprise device-management products.
• Hands-on experience with WFP callouts, ETW providers/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 on using on-device SLM (Small Language Models) is added advantage
• 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.

Location: Atlanta, GA OR Mountain View, CA
Location Type: Hybrid
Travel Expectations: None
Education: Bachelor's Degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Compensation: The typical base salary for this role is between USD $141,000– $250,000 per year and it may be eligible for participation in a corporate bonus program. Actual compensation offer may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, or other relevant factors. In addition to competitive compensation, Omnissa offers a variety of benefits such as employee ownership, health insurance, 401k with matching contributions, disability insurance, paid-time off, growth opportunities, and more.

Omnissa is an Equal Employment Opportunity company and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind:
Omnissa is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Omnissa are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, ethnicity, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past, present, or prospective service in the uniformed services, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Omnissa will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Omnissa welcomes applicants of all ages. Omnissa will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees who have protected disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

This position is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship by Omnissa.