Full-Time

Principal Macos Engineer

Posted on 9/1/2022

Kandji

Kandji

201-500 employees

Apple device management

Hardware

Senior, Expert

San Francisco, CA, USA

Requirements
  • Experience with complex concurrency management using OperationQueue and Grand Central Dispatch
  • Mastery 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 in developing native applications for macOS (Swift, Objective-C, C++)
  • Practical knowledge of C/Objective-C as used in macOS kernel-mode applications using both system space and user space
  • 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 with the ability to understand and assess client-side network and API code
  • Software security design knowledge, including the ability to discover and communicate security weaknesses and vulnerabilities in software, including how it interacts with macOS features and capabilities
  • Experience working in an 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)
  • Work closely with the engineering leadership team to ensure a healthy engineering org
  • Required to work on-site 3 days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). Managers may require additional on-site days
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 a 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
  • 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
Desired Qualifications
  • Excellent presentation skills with the ability to deliver messages around ideas and effectively present them to both the executive team and broader engineering team alike
  • 6+ 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 “I don't know, but will find out” with the confidence in your abilities to deliver that unknown answer

Kendji's mission is to harmonize technology and security through innovative software that powers secure and productive global work.

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$188.4M

Headquarters

San Diego, California

Founded

2018

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-12%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

-14%

Benefits

Health Coverage - 100% individual and dependent medical + dental + vision coverage

Flexible Spending Account

Equity for full-time employees

New MacBook Pro and software setup

Exciting opportunities for career growth

An outstanding, inclusive culture

4% 401(k) company match

Monthly Uber Eats meal credit

$1,000 Home Office Equipment Stipend

$50 monthly Internet reimbursement

Equipment discounts

Week long company shutdown, first week of August

10 Health and Wellness Days

12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave

14 Holidays

INACTIVE