About the Role

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. Declarative Device Management is the technology which enables device management tools from both Apple and many third-party partners to remotely manage millions of Apple devices every day. The Device Management team is looking for a committed, highly competent engineer to contribute to current and future applications of declarative device management to enable our customers to manage Apple devices for their users.

As a member of the 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 Apple's App Store apps to low-level OS infrastructure. Apple's 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!

Responsibilities

• Present technical concepts, including overall device management architecture and plug-in requirements, to new cross-functional partners
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and implement declarative device management solutions for their projects
• Partner closely with the device management core team to expedite, automate, or eliminate the boilerplate code that device management adopters need to write
• Reimagine existing profile-based management behaviors as declarative device management solutions
• Develop and prioritize roadmaps with product and engineering management

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with a C-like programming language (Swift, Objective-C, Java, C++, C#, etc.)
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and work collaboratively with others
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with device management technologies such as MDM and Declarative Device Management
• Familiarity with concurrent programming concepts and design patterns, such as multi-threading, serialization, and locking
• Working knowledge of key Apple technologies like Core Data, libdispatch, XPC
• Experience with framework and/or daemon development
• Experience implementing client to server network communications

Equal Opportunity

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.