Senior Software Engineer - C++

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Customer Focused Engineering (CFE) team within the Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) team at Microsoft, your mission is to keep customers secure and productive by delivering a reliable, high-quality servicing experience across current and future versions of Windows. You will specifically focus on core components of the Windows operating system, such as Active Directory and identity-related infrastructure. **Key Responsibilities:** - Investigating and fixing security vulnerabilities across print and networking stacks. - Addressing non-security bugs and servicing issues that impact customer environments. - Reproducing and resolving customer-reported incidents (ICMs) in collaboration with support and product teams. - Driving engineering quality and compliance through rigorous debugging and validation. - Ensuring reliable, regression-free fixes across diverse hardware, protocol stacks, and deployment scenarios. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy deep system-level debugging, protocol correctness, and delivering impact at scale by keeping the Windows ecosystem secure and reliable for millions of users. **Qualifications Required:** - 8+ years of professional software development experience. - Proficiency in C++, with experience working in large and complex codebases. - Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, especially in multi-threaded, system-level applications. - Experience with Windows system-level programming, ideally in areas related to print subsystems, networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, SMB, RPC), or driver models. - Familiarity with Windows debugging tools (e.g., WinDbg, trace logs, protocol analyzers like Wireshark). - Proven ability to understand and troubleshoot unfamiliar codebases. - Strong verbal and written communication skills. - Ability to work across global teams and collaborate in a diverse, team-oriented environment. - B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent preferred.,