Principal macOS Engineer

Iru

1d•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a Principal Engineer with experience building and shipping enterprise software on the macOS platform. As a Principal Engineer at Kandji, you will lead development and innovation with our proprietary macOS agent and suite of applications. Principal Engineers have the opportunity to deliver and define strategic Kandji business level objectives and key components of our research and development projects.

Requirements

Experience with complex concurrency management using OperationQueue and Grand Central Dispatch.
Experienced macOS developer with a clear understanding of the differences between macOS and other Apple platforms, such as iOS, with a deep understanding of technologies specific to macOS.
Highly familiar with AppKit, Foundation, Core Graphics, Core Animation and other relevant frameworks.
Strong technical communication skills that will enable you to collaborate effectively with peers and leadership
Passion to dig in and lead the development of ground-breaking features and products
Expertise developing native applications for macOS (Swift, Objective-C, C++)
Deep understanding of operating system fundamentals, Cocoa design patterns, protocol-oriented programming, internals such as kernel mode and user mode, device drivers, filesystems, networking concepts, process and application management, security and access control
Familiarity with network applications security and secure coding practices with ability to understand and assess client-side network and API code
Experience working in Agile software development team and familiarity with build processes and best dev practices such as TDD / CI / CD
Understanding of authentication protocols in the macOS enterprise system (e.g. enterprise connect)

Nice To Haves

Excellent presentation skills with ability to deliver messages around ideas and effectively present them to both the executive team and broader engineering team alike
5+ years of expertise in Swift and advanced features of the language
Experience writing BSD libraries and other low level macOS technologies
Knowledge of System and Network extension technologies
Experience in the enterprise security space
Experience with managing a large fleet of Apple devices in an Enterprise environment (Mac admin) is a plus
Mastery of MacOS/Mach/BSD module, driver, and kernel extensions
Ability to say âI donât know, but will find outâ with the confidence in your abilities to deliver that unknown answer

Responsibilities

Hands on coder with ability to architect and contribute code for new features and proof of concepts
Create architectures and high-level designs to meet our strategic objectives that are flexible and enable many options in the future without 100% clarity on what that future is
Identify technology and strategic growth opportunities that enable Kandji to grow as a business and rally the organization behind these choices by providing clear rationale and technical vision.
Become an authority on the technologies of your team with the ability to answer questions to guide other developers and inform business management
Collaborate cross functionally with distributed teams; much of our workforce is remote
Work closely with engineering counterparts on other projects to ensure consistent architecture and product alignment
Help drive quality by working with teams to promote modularized code that is testable, performant, and easy to maintain with multi-staged validation plans
Design and deliver systems that require research on what is 'possible' rather than simply relying on past experience