Software Engineer, Device Management, CoreOS

Imagine what you could do here to help students get excited about learning and employees work more efficiently by making it easier for organizations to configure and manage Apple devices in schools and businesses around the world. Mobile Device Management and Declarative Device Management are the technologies which enable device management tools from both Apple and many third-party partners to remotely manage millions of Apple devices every day. The team is looking for a committed highly competent engineer to contribute to current and future applications of device management to enable our customers to manage Apple devices for their

nAs a member of the Core Device Management team you will have the opportunity to influence product features implement new OS-level functionality and work cross-functionally with many other teams across Apple to design and implement innovative solutions to the problems organizations face while incorporating technology without compromising the Apple user experience for the end user of each device. Device Management is the layer within iOS macOS tvOS visionOS and watchOS which is relied upon by many system components for managing settings locally as well as handling communication with device management tools like Apple Configurator and Device Management (MDM) servers. As most system components require some form of management the Device Management team builds partnerships with many different engineering teams across the company from system and Apples App Store apps to low-level OS infrastructure. Apples commitment to developing innovative solutions for education and enterprise customers has never been stronger and we have more exciting features in the works that will delight our customers. If you are excited about enabling the use of the latest Apple devices and technology in schools businesses and governments around the world come join our team and make a difference!

Present technical concepts including overall device management architecture and plug-in requirements to new cross-functional and maintain the core MDM networking protocol and functionality used by Apple Business Apple School Manager and third-party MDM vendors worldwide every daynCollaborate with cross-functional partners to design and implement device management solutions for their with framework teams to reduce complexity and improve the developer experience for device management adoptersnContribute to and influence team roadmaps in partnership with product and engineering management.

Experience with professional software development in a C-like programming language (Swift Objective-C Java C C# etc.)nFamiliarity with concurrent programming concepts and design patterns such as multi-threading serialization and lockingnDemonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies while working collaboratively with othersnExcellent communication and interpersonal skillsnBachelors Degree in Computer Science an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience

Familiarity with device management technologies such as MDM and Declarative Device ManagementnWorking knowledge of key Apple technologies like CoreData libdispatch XPC Swift concurrencynExperience with framework daemon and/or public API development especially with respect to macOSnExperience implementing client - server network communicationnExperience coding in Swift or Objective-C