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C++ Engineer

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Skills

Required

  • C++
  • C API
  • debugging
  • launchd daemons and agents
  • XPC
  • NSXPCConnection
  • Profiling
  • Instruments
  • os_signpost
  • LLDB
  • Swift
  • pthreads
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Keychain

Preferred

  • macOS
  • UI
  • SwiftUI
  • AppKit
  • Xcode
  • EDR/AV / network security / device-management

Requirements

  • Languages: modern C++ (C++17/20) and Swift 6 (async/await, actors, strict concurrency checking). Also Objective-C++ to bridge Swift, C++ and C APIs.
  • macOS systems programming: Foundation and CoreFoundation, GCD and pthreads, POSIX/BSD APIs, Mach IPC, launchd daemons and agents, and XPC (C API and NSXPCConnection).

Performance, debugging and test

  • o Profiling CPU and memory with Instruments and os_signpost.
  • o Debugging with LLDB, crash logs and os_log.
  • o XCTest, sanitizers, fuzzing, and xcodebuild-based CI.
  • o Apple Silicon and Intel.
  • Experience with codebases shared across Mac, Windows and Linux.
  • Core skills (one or more of the areas listed below)
  • Process model and IPC: launchd daemons and agents, and XPC (C API and NSXPCConnection).
  • Endpoint Security and System Extensions: Endpoint Security clients handling both blocking (AUTH) events and notification events, user/MDM approval, upgrades.
  • Network Extension: content filters, both flow-level (NEFilterDataProvider) and packet-level (NEFilterPacketProvider), and Network.framework.
  • Security and crypto: Verifying code signatures (SecCode / SecStaticCode) and validating certificates (SecTrust), Keychain, Entitlements, hardened runtime, and macOS privacy permissions.
  • Devices and storage: IOKit (hardware and device enumeration) and DiskArbitration (disk and volume events).
  • Packaging and deployment: installers, notarization, and MDM configuration profiles deployed through Jamf, Intune or similar tools.
  • Performance, debugging and test: Profiling CPU and memory with Instruments and os_signpost, Debugging with LLDB, crash logs and os_log, XCTest, sanitizers, fuzzing, and xcodebuild-based CI.

Preferred

  • UI: SwiftUI and AppKit apps and app extensions.
  • Testing against macOS and Xcode betas before public release.
  • Experience shipping EDR/AV, network security or device-management products.