C++ Staff Software Engineer (UK, Remote) in Cheshire, Warrington

In today’s work environment, employees use a myriad of devices to access IT applications and data over multiple networks to stay productive, wherever and however they work. Ivanti elevates and secures Everywhere Work so that people and organizations can thrive. While our headquarters is in the U.S., half of our employees and customers are outside the country. We have 36 offices in 23 nations, with significant offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore, and other major cities around the world. Ivanti’s mission is to be a global technology leader enabling organizations to elevate Everywhere Work, automating tasks that discover, manage, secure, and service all their IT assets.

At Ivanti, our success begins with our people. This is why we embrace Everywhere Work across the globe, where Ivantians and our customers are thriving. We believe in a healthy work‑life blend and act on it by fostering a culture where all perspectives are heard, respected, and valued. Through Ivanti’s Centered Around You approach, our employees benefit from programs focused on their professional development and career growth. We align through our core values by locking arms in collaboration, being champions for our customers, focusing on the outcomes that matter most and fighting the good fight against cyberattacks.

Ivanti Neurons is our cutting‑edge, cloud‑based platform that powers intelligent IT workflows for enterprises around the world. At the heart of this ecosystem is the Neurons Agent—a lightweight, cross‑platform application deployed to customer endpoints on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. The Neurons Agent communicates seamlessly with our cloud platform, receiving work instructions and deploying functional Engines provided by feature teams. The agent framework also provides the infrastructure foundation for these feature engines, enabling advanced automation and orchestration on endpoints. Our mission is to deliver agents that are secure, robust, and highly performant, ensuring minimal impact on endpoint resources while maintaining maximum reliability.

You’ll be joining a highly skilled, globally distributed DevOps team driven by a passion for quality, security, and customer impact. As the stewards of the Neurons Agent, our team takes end‑to‑end ownership—designing, developing, and maintaining agent code that must work seamlessly across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms running on both Intel and ARM architectures. Collaboration is critical in our remote‑first environment, and personal responsibility is high: every team member is entrusted with solving complex problems and delivering features that matter to our customers. We prioritize stable releases, continuous monitoring, and rapid iteration, ensuring our agents meet the highest standards of performance and reliability while minimizing their footprint on user devices.

As a Staff Windows Software Engineer on the Neurons Agent team, you’ll set the technical direction for agent development on Windows. You’ll architect, build, and refine solutions that interact with our Neurons Cloud Platform, ensuring our deployments are resilient, secure, and high‑performing across customer environments.

What You Will Be Doing

• Architect, lead, and implement agent infrastructure and features for Windows.
• Ensure agent reliability, security, and performance with minimal impact on endpoints.
• Drive platform stability through troubleshooting and deep investigation of critical issues.
• Champion DevOps and Agile best practices, fostering a culture of automation and iterative improvement.
• Design and manage automated test and integration test suites for Windows.
• Mentor and guide engineers through technical reviews, setting standards for quality and security.
• Collaborate with Mac and Linux platform leads and feature teams for engine integration and cross‑platform initiatives.
• Work closely with cloud teams to support Azure integrations and deployments.
• Author clear documentation and share knowledge across the global organization.

To Be Successful in The Role, You Will Have

• Proven experience developing advanced solutions for the Windows OS (internals, I/O, security, services).
• Deep expertise in modern C++, C#, and .NET (core).
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship experience.
• Advanced understanding of DevOps best practices (CI/CD pipelines, automation, cloud), preferably with Azure.
• Strong background in Agile methodologies and facilitation of Agile processes.
• High proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining automated and integration tests.
• Proficient with Git/GitHub and other collaborative development tools.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Self‑motivated and adaptable; thrives in a distributed, remote environment.

At Ivanti, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Ivanti believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.