Principal Vulnerability Engineer

San Francisco / Engineering / Full-Time / On-site

About Kandji

Kandji is the Apple Device Management and Security Platform. Kandji empowers companies to manage and secure Apple devices in the enterprise and  centrally securing and managing Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV devices, IT and Info Sec teams can save countless hours of manual, repetitive work with features like one-click compliance templates and more than 150 pre-built automations, apps, and workflows.

Device Harmony is our vision for tearing down the wall between IT and Info Sec to keep every Apple user secure and productive, using connected intelligence and automation.

By choosing a career with Kandji, you will play an integral role in contributing to making our vision a reality. Backed by world-class investors such as Tiger Global, Greycroft, B Capital Group, Okta Ventures, the Spruce House Partnership, and First Round Capital, Kandji has raised over $100+M in capital to date. Trusted by industry leaders, Kandji’s rapidly growing customer base includes companies like Ramp, Notion, Attentive, Netskope, Noom, Turo, Groupon, Vox Media, and more.

Recognized for its award-winning products, Kandji was recently named the #1 fastest-growing app in Okta’s 2023 Businesses at Work Report and a G2 Best Software 2023 Award Winner for Fastest Growing Products!

The Opportunity

As a Principal Vulnerability Engineer at Kandji, you will lead efforts to design, build, and scale our Vulnerability platform while meeting strong quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and security goals. You will work alongside our Staff/Principal Software Engineers and our Security, Data, and Infrastructure teams to decide how to architect key components, what new technologies and services to implement, and guide Kandji’s overall technical strategy.

We are looking for someone who prefers simple solutions and designs over complex ones and has a good intuition for what will last and scale. You should have strong attention to detail, especially around quality, performance, and reliability, and thrive in a high-speed, collaborative environment. You take pride in shepherding projects from ideation to launch and are comfortable balancing tactical and strategic considerations along the way.

The successful candidate will become an authority on Kandji’s Vulnerability platform, coordinate improvements across all of Engineering, and ultimately help decide the direction of the technology that powers Kandji’s platform for customers worldwide.

• Design, develop, test, and scale Kandji’s Vulnerability platform
• Work across and within teams at Kandji to ensure that the platform works seamlessly for the product's needs
• Take ownership of Kandji’s scalability, reliability, and performance goals by designing and implementing solutions that fit business needs
• Coach and mentor Engineers, leading others in designing elegant code and cloud-native architecture that efficiently scales to meet Kandji’s growing needs
• Develop and drive new ways of thinking across teams to improve quality, productivity, and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities
• Ensure all technical decisions across teams support Kandji’s quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals
• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to drive alignment on technical direction and strategy of the platform

• 5+ years of direct experience developing and improving a vulnerability detection engine.
• 7+ years of software security experience at product-led SaaS companies
• Deep understanding of macOS architecture
• Expert knowledge of public cloud and cloud-native architectural patterns
• Advanced competency in distributed systems, event-driven patterns, streaming, high availability design
• Strong knowledge of multiple persistence strategies and data governance
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise level design patterns
• Experience working in high growth startup environments and comfortable balancing tactical and strategic considerations
• Required to work on-site 3 days…