Senior C++ Software Engineer
ActivTrak • Austin, Texas, United States
Posted: May 4, 2026
Job Description
ActivTrak is a comprehensive cloud-based analytics service that allows businesses to gain insights on and improve employee productivity. The ActivTrak platform provides valuable aggregate data on a company's day-by-day performance, with information displayed on easy-to-manage dashboards.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Ingestion team, you will be primarily responsible for engineering the Agent portion of our technology stack, where strong low level Windows and Mac skills are necessary. You must be able to write code that can operate in a myriad of customer environments (OS versions, browsers, networking) and diagnose/troubleshoot problems that are a result of functioning in a complex computing ecosystem.
In addition to agent development, you will have the opportunity to work across our technology stack as needed, including browser extension development and backend development across multiple layers of our Cloud-Native SaaS application, leveraging modern SaaS design and .NET Core development as we disrupt the productivity analytics industry.
ActivTrak is a comprehensive cloud-based analytics service that allows businesses to gain insights on and improve employee productivity. The ActivTrak platform provides valuable aggregate data on a company's day-by-day performance, with information...Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in software development
- Experience with the latest C++ language standards; i.e. C++20/23/26
- Mac OS X systems skills
- Windows Win32 library and Windows service development
- Interprocess communication
- Multi-thread synchronization
- Browser extensions and native messaging
- Cross Platform C++ Development
- Modern CMake
- Windows Installer
Nice to Haves:
- MacOS Transparency, Consent, and Control framework
- GIT/GitHub/GitHub Actions
- WMIC on Windows 11
- Comprehensive C# knowledge (e.g., Reflection, Lambda, LINQ, Multithreading)
- Experience in cloud environments (e.g. GCP, AWS )
- Data Modeling design
- API design/implementation (e.g., Microservices, REST, etc.)
- Serialization (e.g. JSON, XML)
- Strong SQL experience
- Docker/Containers, Kubernetes
- .NET core
- Shell scripting
- Javascript and Typescript
- Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle and software development best practices
- Experience with RMM/MDM deployments
Additional Content
ActivTrak is a comprehensive cloud-based analytics service that allows businesses to gain insights on and improve employee productivity. The ActivTrak platform provides valuable aggregate data on a company's day-by-day performance, with information displayed on easy-to-manage dashboards.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Ingestion team, you will be primarily responsible for engineering the Agent portion of our technology stack, where strong low level Windows and Mac skills are necessary. You must be able to write code that can operate in a myriad of customer environments (OS versions, browsers, networking) and diagnose/troubleshoot problems that are a result of functioning in a complex computing ecosystem.
In addition to agent development, you will have the opportunity to work across our technology stack as needed, including browser extension development and backend development across multiple layers of our Cloud-Native SaaS application, leveraging modern SaaS design and .NET Core development as we disrupt the productivity analytics industry.
ActivTrak is a comprehensive cloud-based analytics service that allows businesses to gain insights on and improve employee productivity. The ActivTrak platform provides valuable aggregate data on a company's day-by-day performance, with information...Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in software development
- Experience with the latest C++ language standards; i.e. C++20/23/26
- Mac OS X systems skills
- Windows Win32 library and Windows service development
- Interprocess communication
- Multi-thread synchronization
- Browser extensions and native messaging
- Cross Platform C++ Development
- Modern CMake
- Windows Installer
Nice to Haves:
- MacOS Transparency, Consent, and Control framework
- GIT/GitHub/GitHub Actions
- WMIC on Windows 11
- Comprehensive C# knowledge (e.g., Reflection, Lambda, LINQ, Multithreading)
- Experience in cloud environments (e.g. GCP, AWS )
- Data Modeling design
- API design/implementation (e.g., Microservices, REST, etc.)
- Serialization (e.g. JSON, XML)
- Strong SQL experience
- Docker/Containers, Kubernetes
- .NET core
- Shell scripting
- Javascript and Typescript
- Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle and software development best practices
- Experience with RMM/MDM deployments