Strac

Data Discovery, DLP, DSPM for SaaS, Cloud, Gen AI & Endpoints

Senior Endpoint Security Engineer (Windows)

$135K - $200K / 0.01% - 0.10%
Location
USA / Remote (USA)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
6+ years
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Aatish Mandelecha
Aatish Mandelecha
Founder

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Windows Endpoint Security Engineer to design and develop advanced endpoint security solutions for Windows devices. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Windows system-level programming and a passion for building tools that protect sensitive data, monitor security events, and enhance organizational compliance. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology that secures endpoints in diverse enterprise environments.

This is a Remote role.


Required Skills and Experience

  • 5+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on Windows applications and system-level programming.
  • Expertise in C/C++ and C#, with a solid understanding of Windows internals and APIs (e.g., Win32 API, WMI, Windows Filtering Platform (WFP), ETW, and Kernel-Mode Drivers).
  • Proven experience in building endpoint monitoring or security agents for Windows.
  • Familiarity with Windows file systems, driver development, or user-space file monitoring tools (e.g., File System Minifilter Drivers, NTFS, FAT32).
  • Hands-on experience in implementing TLS termination, traffic inspection, and encryption/decryption mechanisms.
  • Experience integrating with SIEM tools, cloud DLP platforms, or external proxies.
  • Strong understanding of Windows security mechanisms, such as AppLocker, BitLocker, User Account Control (UAC), and Credential Guard.
  • Excellent debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills for Windows environments.
  • Ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code with comprehensive unit and integration tests.

In addition to base pay and high equity, Strac employees get Health Insurance (Medical, Dental and Vision) and Life Insurance

About Strac

What is Strac?

Strac is an agentless Data Discovery (aka DSPM - Data Security Posture Management) & DLP (Data Leak Prevention) that automatically discovers, classifies and remediates sensitive data (alert, label, redact, mask, block, delete).

Strac protects SaaS, Cloud, Gen AI and Endpoints like O365, Slack, GDrive, AWS, Salesforce, ChatGPT, Jira, Mac, Zendesk, and 40+ integrations.

Who uses Strac?

Strac protects enterprise companies like UiPath, ThredUP, Crypto (dot) com!

Who are we?

We are ex-Amazonians who spent over 11 years at Amazon building their payment security infrastructure including building payment secure zone on AWS securing their billions of cards and bank accounts.

How much have we raised?

We also raised $3.5MM seed round from exceptional investors. You can read more about that here: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/19/strac-plugs-into-slack-onedrive-and-more-to-automatically-redact-sensitive-info/ In fact, we are so lean. We are cash flow positive!

Strac
Founded:2021
Team Size:8
Location:Bellevue, WA
Founders
Aatish Mandelecha
Aatish Mandelecha
Founder