Senior Software Engineer, Endpoint Agent (MacOS)

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401K

Paid PTO

Bonuses

Job summary

Keeper Security seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the macOS EPM agent to design, implement, and scale endpoint privilege controls across enterprise macOS environments. This is a 100% remote position, with potential hybrid schedules for candidates in the Chicago area.

You will partner with Product, QA Automation and Security to ship high-quality releases and strengthen security, operability, and telemetry across the agent lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production software.
• Strong experience building macOS-native software such as daemons/services, endpoint agents, system utilities, or security tooling.
• Proficiency in one or more languages commonly used for macOS agent development (e.g., Swift/Objective‑C, C/C++, Rust, Go).
• Solid understanding of macOS security and privilege models (process execution, entitlements, TCC/privacy controls, least privilege patterns).
• Experience with packaging and enterprise deployment patterns on macOS (pkg, signing, notarization, MDM distribution).
• Strong debugging skills for complex issues (concurrency, performance, stability, and root cause analysis).
• Experience building automated tests and working in CI/CD environments; strong engineering hygiene around reviews and documentation.
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner cross‑functionally with Product, QA and Security.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain macOS agent components for EPM, including elevation workflows, policy enforcement, and audit logging
• Implement secure local policy evaluation and caching to support offline/online operation and consistent enforcement
• Build robust agent lifecycle capabilities including installation, upgrades, rollback safety, notarization/signing, and configuration management
• Integrate the agent with management‑plane services and APIs for policy distribution, device identity, telemetry, and reporting
• Strengthen tamper resistance and abuse prevention, including hardening service/daemon behavior and agent configuration/update flows
• Improve diagnostics and observability (structured logs, health signals, performance profiling, crash handling) to support enterprise deployments
• Collaborate with QA Automation to improve test coverage and reliability across unit, integration and end‑to‑end test suites
• Participate in secure SDLC practices, threat modeling, code reviews, and on‑call/incident response as needed

Skills

macOS

Swift/Objective-C

C/C++

Rust

Go

CI/CD

Tools

pkg signing

notarization

MDM distribution

Job description

Description

Keeper Security is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale the MacOS endpoint agent for our Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM/KEPM) solution. This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity to work a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the Chicago, IL or El Dorado Hills, CA metro areas.

Keeper's cybersecurity software is trusted by millions of people and thousands of organizations globally. Keeper is published in 23 languages and is sold in over 150 countries. Join one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and help deliver enterprise‑grade endpoint privilege controls that reduce attack surface, prevent misuse of admin rights, and support audit and compliance requirements.

About Keeper

Keeper Security is one of the fastest‑growing cybersecurity software companies that protects thousands of organizations and millions of people in over 150 countries. Keeper is a pioneer of zero‑knowledge and zero‑trust security built for any IT environment. Its core offering, KeeperPAM®, is an AI‑enabled, cloud‑native platform that protects all users, devices and infrastructure from cyber attacks. Recognized for its innovation in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM), Keeper secures passwords and passkeys, infrastructure secrets, remote connections and endpoints with role‑based enforcement policies, least privilege and just‑in‑time access. Learn why Keeper is trusted by leading organizations to defend against modern adversaries at KeeperSecurity.com.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the EPM macOS Agent team, you will remain hands‑on designing and implementing agent capabilities that run on endpoints and enforce privilege policy in real time. You’ll build elevation workflows, local policy evaluation, telemetry and audit logging, and hardened controls that operate reliably at scale across enterprise macOS environments. You will partner closely with Product, QA Automation and Security to ship high‑quality releases and continuously strengthen security and operability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain macOS agent components for EPM, including elevation workflows, policy enforcement, and audit logging
• Implement secure local policy evaluation and caching to support offline/online operation and consistent enforcement
• Build robust agent lifecycle capabilities including installation, upgrades, rollback safety, notarization/signing, and configuration management
• Integrate the agent with management‑plane services and APIs for policy distribution, device identity, telemetry, and reporting
• Strengthen tamper resistance and abuse prevention, including hardening service/daemon behavior and agent configuration/update flows
• Improve diagnostics and observability (structured logs, health signals, performance profiling, crash handling) to support enterprise deployments
• Collaborate with QA Automation to improve test coverage and reliability across unit, integration and end‑to‑end test suites
• Participate in secure SDLC practices, threat modeling, code reviews, and on‑call/incident response as needed

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production software
• Strong experience building macOS‑native software such as daemons/services, endpoint agents, system utilities, or security tooling
• Proficiency in one or more languages commonly used for macOS agent development (e.g., Swift/Objective‑C, C/C++, Rust, Go)
• Solid understanding of macOS security and privilege models (process execution, entitlements, TCC/privacy controls, least privilege patterns)
• Experience with packaging and enterprise deployment patterns on macOS (pkg, signing, notarization, MDM distribution)
• Strong debugging skills for complex issues (concurrency, performance, stability, and root cause analysis)
• Experience building automated tests and working in CI/CD environments; strong engineering hygiene around reviews and documentation
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner cross‑functionally with Product, QA and Security

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with endpoint privilege management, EDR/EPP agents, device management, or identity/security products
• Familiarity with macOS platform security architecture (e.g., system extensions) and enterprise management workflows
• Experience designing policy engines (rules evaluation, precedence, auditability, explainability)
• Familiarity with secure update mechanisms, signing/notarization, and release hardening for endpoint software
• Exposure to IT admin and MSP workflows and macOS enterprise tooling (e.g., Jamf, Kandji, Intune for macOS)
• Exposure to secure SDLC practices and compliance‑minded engineering (e.g., SOC 2, FedRAMP, NIST)

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships)
• Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental Life
• Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401K (Roth/Traditional)
• A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc.)
• Above‑market annual bonuses

Keeper Security, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E‑Verify program. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Classification: Exempt