Omnissa

Senior Software Engineer, macOS - AI Security & Governance (Elara)

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3 days ago
Atlanta, GA, USA or Mountain View, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$141k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Make foundational architecture decisions for the Elara macOS agent and co-design shared cross-platform components.
  • Write specifications, design documents, and interface contracts for engineers and AI coding agents.
  • Build native macOS endpoint security capabilities using Apple system frameworks.
  • Monitor process, file-system, application, and network activity and implement event-driven policy enforcement.
  • Build network visibility and filtering capabilities for real-time AI usage governance.
  • Troubleshoot complex systems issues with Instruments, LLDB, unified logging, and native profiling tools.
  • Use AI coding agents for design, implementation, testing, and debugging while reviewing generated code, especially low-level and privileged paths.
  • Help define agentic development practices, including context, prompting, review standards, guardrails, documentation, CI, and test automation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent depth, including significant hands-on work with native macOS applications or system-level components.
  • Strong Rust skills and working proficiency in Swift.
  • Deep understanding of macOS processes, threads, memory management, IPC, file systems, and networking.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one of Endpoint Security, Network Extension, System Extensions, or XPC.
  • Solid knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP/HTTPS, VPNs, and proxies.
  • Experience building secure, concurrent, long-running background services with strong memory-safety and secure-coding practices.
  • Hands-on production experience with AI coding agents and sound judgment about verifying or rejecting their output.
  • Ability to work through ambiguity and take end-to-end ownership in a zero-to-one environment.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
  • Preferred: experience with endpoint security, EDR, DLP, VPN, ZTNA, SASE, device-management products, NEFilterDataProvider, NEPacketTunnelProvider, NEDNSProxyProvider, Endpoint Security authorization events, macOS sandboxing, entitlements, TCC, system extensions, code signing, notarization, and MDM deployment.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Swift/Objective-C FFI, Tokio, Serde, cross-platform Rust libraries, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, secure cloud-to-endpoint communication, Core ML inference, AI security risks, MCP, AI-assisted test harnesses, agent tooling, and open-source or public technical work.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role located in Atlanta, GA or Mountain View, CA, with no travel expected.
  • Typical base salary is USD $141,000–$250,000 per year and the role may be eligible for a corporate bonus program.
  • Benefits include employee ownership, health insurance, 401(k) matching contributions, disability insurance, paid time off, and growth opportunities.

Tech Stack

gRPCmacOSRustSwift
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About Omnissa

1,001-5,000 employees

Omnissa builds an enterprise digital work platform that unifies endpoint management, virtual desktops and apps, digital employee experience, and security to manage devices and access across clouds. It sells software and cloud services to IT teams in enterprises, education, and public sector. The company was spun out of VMware’s End‑User Computing business, is owned by KKR, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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