Engineering Manager, Runtime Analysis Tools

The Runtime Tools team is looking for developers with a passion for memory and resource optimization to enhance, adapt, and innovate in creating tools for the next generation of software and hardware on Apple's platforms. Runtime Tools exist to understand how code runs, mapping the execution back to code and the system calls responsible. Memory is also an important and limited shared resource, making intelligent, developer-friendly tools critical for identifying optimization opportunities. Core responsibilities of the role include working with Apple’s internal performance optimization engineers, Swift and Objective-C runtime teams, and frameworks teams to provide symbolication services and introspect memory usage across Apple's ecosystem.

This role is within Apple's Xcode group which encompasses more than just the IDE — providing tools like Instruments and CLI tools that allow dreamers, makers, and shapers to design, write, build, debug, profile, and deploy software for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Tools development is a uniquely rewarding area as the primary users are developers, making it an opportunity to influence and improve the productivity of developers and efficiency of Apps all across the world.

The Memory & Symbolication team primarily focuses on runtime analysis techniques to introspect running software and on-disk binaries to understand and improve them. The team is responsible for command-line tools like leaks, heap, vmmap, sample, atos, symbols, symbolication services and frameworks, Xcode's Memory Graph Debugger, and runtime libraries that improve the built-in debugging experience on Apple's platforms. These tools and services for process analysis are used on over a billion devices and by developers worldwide who make life-changing ideas a reality.