Staff Endpoint Systems Engineer - Platform & Security

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lila is seeking a Staff IT Systems Engineer, Endpoints to own the architecture and roadmap for endpoint management across the company. This role sits within IT & Security and supports the technology every scientist, engineer, and employee relies on.

We treat endpoint management as a software engineering discipline, emphasizing configuration, policy, remediation, observability, and automated rollout. You will mentor engineers and lead cross-functional initiatives across IT, Security, Research

Qualifications

• Strong experience in IT systems and endpoint engineering.
• Experience with MDM/UEM platforms.
• Experience automating with code and CI/CD.
• Proficiency across macOS and Windows environments.
• Ability to mentor engineers and set technical standards.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and roadmap for endpoint fleet.
• Define standards for endpoint configuration, policy, remediation, observability, and rollout practices.
• Drive configuration-as-code adoption for MDM policies, profiles, scripts, staged rollouts, canary groups, and automated rollback.
• Design zero-touch provisioning workflows so devices arrive encrypted, configured, compliant, and productive out of the box.
• Partner with Security to integrate endpoint posture, device trust, vulnerability data, EDR, and Zero Trust access controls.
• Build automation and internal tooling using scripts, APIs, CI/CD, and AI-assisted engineering practices to reduce manual toil.
• Improve vulnerability and patch management through telemetry, dashboards, drift detection, and auditable compliance workflows.
• Support specialized computing environments, including research workstations, VDI, managed browsers, and remote-access patterns where appropriate.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex endpoint issues and mentor engineers across IT and Security.
• Partner across Security, Legal, HR, Research Computing, and Lab Operations to protect sensitive IP while keeping the employee experience seamless.

Skills

IT systems engineering

Endpoint engineering

Platform engineering

CI/CD practices

Python scripting

PowerShell

Bash

Troubleshooting

Tools

Jamf

Intune

Workspace ONE

Okta

Job description

Lila is seeking a Staff IT Systems Engineer, Endpoints to own the architecture and roadmap for endpoint management across the company. This role sits within IT & Security and supports the technology every scientist, engineer, and employee relies on.

We treat endpoint management as a software engineering discipline, emphasizing configuration, policy, remediation, observability, and automated rollout. You will mentor engineers and lead cross-functional initiatives across IT, Security, Research