Principal Software Engineer, Kandji
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
Apple device management platform
Open for applications
Apple device management platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To harmonize technology and security through innovative software that powers secure and productive global work.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or similar)
- Experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ)
- Knowledge of security and compliance considerations
- Deep understanding of service-oriented architecture and microservices best practices
- Prior experience in a fast-paced startup environment
- Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Ability to identify problems/opportunities, break them down into critical parts, and design scalable solutions
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies
- Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and/or gRPC
- Experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure high-quality software
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or ECS
- Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
- Strong experience with peer code reviews, offering and receiving constructive feedback to maintain and elevate coding standards
- Required to work on-site 5x a week in our Miami office (Coral Gables)
Desirable
- Exposure to frontend architecture (e.g., React)
- Familiarity with content delivery networks (CDNs) and caching strategies
- Familiarity with E2E testing systems (e.g. Playwright)
- Experience with API gateways (e.g., Kong, AWS API Gateway)
- Familiarity with service meshes (e.g., Dapr, Linkerd, Istio)
- Experience with observability tools and practices, including distributed tracing, logging, and monitoring
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the architecture, tools, and development processes for one of Kandji’s product lines
- You will collaborate with developers to design, build, and evolve the product while focusing on reliability, scalability, and security concerns
- You will work closely with product designers to transform ideas into technical solutions, and help oversee AI implementations
- Build and Maintain Service Architecture: Architect and implement reliable, scalable backend services to support the application
- Drive Infrastructure Improvements: Partner with the infrastructure team to evolve CI/CD pipelines and service deployment patterns
- Mentor and Lead by Example: Lead technical development with knowledge of up-to-date best practices, and guide other engineers through code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical decision-making
- Design for Scalability and Resilience: Build systems that handle growth gracefully and are resilient to failure across distributed environments
- Evolve Messaging and Integration Patterns: Contribute to the adoption and evolution of event-driven architectures and asynchronous service communication using tools like Kafka or similar
- Champion Developer Productivity: Ensure our tooling provides developers with the best environment to develop locally, test, and ship their code
- Continuously Improve Systems: Proactively identify bottlenecks and technical debt, leading efforts to improve platform stability and performance
Our take
Device and application management is essential for the maintenance of an IT stack, with particular emphasis on frequent updating and compliance. This can be a laborious and repetitive task, so management software exists to automate these processes. However, existing solutions are generally aimed towards IT departments running on Windows.
Kandji provides a mobile device management platform that facilitates the remote maintenance of Apple-based IT stacks. Users can manage IT devices, applications, networking and compliance within a zero-touch automation system. The need for this service in companies using Apple hardware is clear: it has been adopted by major enterprises such as Belkin, Crunchbase and Notion.
As the Apple device management market is also expanding at speed, Kandji is well poised to continue its run of success. It has raised significants funding across several round, the latest of which is cited to support investment in product innovation and engineering for future advancements and value for customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$100m
SERIES D
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $288.4m
Company 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% 401k 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
Company HQ
Downtown San Diego, San Diego, CA
Leadership
Adam Pettit
(Founder & CEO)They started their career in Solutions at Apple before working as President of AMP Consulting and spending 9 years as CEO of Interlaced, which they founded. They left to found Kandji in 2018 as CEO.
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