MacOS Content Production Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
Corporate Functions
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The Retail Technology Engineering team designs, develops and deploys apps and digital experiences that shape the future of Apple Retail stores globally. You'll be a part of a dynamic team of full stack engineers, who work in partnership with various partner Apple teams, to deliver innovative, scalable solutions to tens of thousands of Apple devices across 500+ stores worldwide. If you're self-motivated, passionate about building impactful products and mastering new technologies, this is your opportunity to thrive!
Description
We’re seeking a dedicated MacOS engineer to streamline and deliver Mac demo content to Apple stores worldwide. You’ll be collaborating with Apple Retail, Software Engineering, and IS&T organizations to influence technical roadmaps, troubleshoot performance, capacity, and system limitations with QA teams, and implement enhancements or new architecture. Successful candidates are humble, curious, creative, tenacious, organized, have clarity of thought and can lead through ambiguity
- Build MacOS demo content packages for deployment to Retail stores
- Create ad hoc scripts where needed. Provide requirements and iterate on architecture in partnership with engineering team, to develop, implement and test extensible systems for loading of content, settings, configurations and apps onto demo devices, across multiple locales at scale
- Serve as Tier 3/4 escalation point for MacOS Digital Experience QA. Triage, and debug issues, ensuring root cause analysis and resolution
- Device provisioning via MDM/JAMF. Support device provisioning for demo devices, over the air. Ensure devices are enrolled and configured correctly and securely. Partner with security teams to ensure security model of demo devices is sound and effective
- Perform Apple operating system research, document and communicate findings back to engineering, to ensure seamless demo deployments in stores. Implement new technologies and features for the latest demo experiences
Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience working on MacOS platform as a tooling engineer, system administrator, including troubleshooting and triaging Mac operating systems
- Extensive experience with Mobile Device Management frameworks (JAMF preferred), deploying applications, configurations via packages over MDM
- Demonstrated ability to ensure seamless device provisioning, configuration and system interoperability
- Expert knowledge of UNIX/ LINUX environments and setup tools (ssh, telnet, rsync, etc), critical for system management and troubleshooting
- Demonstrated proficiency in advanced Bash and Python
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Able to navigate through functional and object-oriented programming languages, particularly Python, Swift
- Understanding of integrated testing frameworks such as XCTest and pyTest
- Experience with QA, specifically with developing testing strategies, frameworks and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products
- Ability to collaborate with various cross-functional teams and negotiate / document requirements for product roadmaps
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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