Senior Software Development Engineer

Role Description

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for building the tools required to help organizations succeed with Apple. Lead others on the agile team to break down problems and apply the appropriate designs and practices to build Jamf products.

• Subject matter expert in various Jamf components and product offerings.
• Mentor and coach others while delivering new components and features with high quality and reliability.
• Break down customer problems into work you and the team can execute on.
• Independently complete tasks from start to finish with high quality.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to stakeholders.
• Use your knowledge of Engineering best practices to ask the right questions, solve problems and build great software with a high level of quality.
• Produce designs for new and existing features.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts with others in the organization (Technical Communication, Support, Product and Cloud).
• Perform all job responsibilities in alignment with the core values, mission and purpose of the organization.
• Adhere to the highest moral, ethical and legal standards to deliver an environment that promotes respect, innovation and creativity.
• Support and promote a positive, inclusive workplace one in which the talents and strengths of our increasingly diverse workforce are welcomed, further developed and manifested in our work.
• Build and operate agentic workflows that act on production systems - a model planning and executing multi-step work against real infrastructure, not assisting in an editor.
• Design their guardrails: blast-radius limits, rollback, CI as a mandatory gate, and confidence thresholds deciding what runs automatically versus what queues for approval.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing enterprise grade software with understanding of testing and quality assurance processes (Required).
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in current programming language and tools based on position requirements (Required).
• Hands-on experience building with LLM APIs and agentic frameworks: tool calling, multi-step execution, structured output (Beyond AI coding assistants) (Required).
• Thinks in terms of trust boundaries, blast radius, and least privilege — including about the automation itself, which holds elevated access to production (Required).
• Understands vulnerability management as a discipline: severity and exploitability, SLAs, exception handling, and why an unpatched system with a documented exception differs from one nobody noticed (Required).
• AI coding agents at repository scale (Claude Code or equivalent) - running them across many repos and building the harness that makes their output trustworthy (Preferred).
• Evaluation and observability for non-deterministic systems: measuring accuracy, catching silent degradation (Preferred).
• AI governance in a security context - model-use policy, data handling, and the audit questions that follow an agent-initiated production change (Preferred).
• General Experience performance and load testing applications (Preferred).
• Experience building enterprise level software.
• Experience working within an agile organization.
• Understanding of build systems such as Jenkins or Bamboo.
• Strong communication skills.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with co-workers in a results driven culture.
• Ability to engage with and establish trust and rapport with all levels of customers and employees.
• Solution focused ability working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Apple platform experience.
• 2 year / Associates (Required).
• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred).
• A combination of relevant experience and education may be considered.

Requirements

• Participation in ongoing security training is mandatory.
• Established security protocols will be adhered to, sensitive data will be handled responsibly, and data protection practices are followed, including understanding relevant privacy regulations and reporting breaches.
• Acknowledging the Jamf Code of Conduct, where applicable security and privacy policies can be found, is a requirement of all roles at Jamf.

Benefits

• Named a 2025 Best Companies to Work For by U.S. News.
• Named a 2024 Best Technology Company to Work For by U.S. News.
• Named one of Forbes Most Trusted Companies in 2024.
• Named a 2024 Best Companies to Work For by U.S. News.
• Opportunity to make a real and meaningful impact for more than 75,000 global customers.
• Support new innovations and OS releases the moment they are made available by Apple.
• Work with a small and empowered team where the culture is based on trust, ownership, and respect.
• Clear career path that enables you to grow under supportive leadership and management.
• Access to the Jamf Engineering blog for insights on innovative projects.
• Pay Transparency: Base pay is one part of our total compensation package set within a defined range.
• National Pay Transparency Range: $113,300 - $205,520 USD.