Software Engineer

OVERVIEW

Our Engineering team builds products that autonomously manage endpoint configuration, security, and patching across Windows, macOS, and Linux devices. We value a "one team" mentality, empowering our engineers with autonomy, collaboration, and meaningful ownership of impactful solutions. At Automox, you’ll do your best work, grow your career, and see the direct impact of your contributions.

You are a curious software developer who is dedicated to your craft and enjoy solving big problems; you write code that you are proud of and can hit the ground running with support from the team. You understand that SaaS software delivery necessitates innovation and speed of execution.  You want to be a part of a creative and enterprising team with challenging problems to solve. You pride yourself in owning problems but don’t want to work in a vacuum to solve them.  Collaborating with the team to come up with the best solution for your customer is what fuels your fire. If this sounds like you take a closer look at what this role entails.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Join the core Agent Team- the engine driving Automox's ability to manage millions of devices worldwide.
• Work directly on the Automox Agent: the critical, lightweight software footprint that lives on our customers' endpoints.
• Design, develop, and optimize the cross-platform Automox agent (Windows, macOS, Linux) to ensure extremely low resource consumption and high system reliability.
• Build robust, secure communication pipelines that allow the local agent to seamlessly receive commands and send telemetry back to our cloud services.
• Tackle unique, system-level challenges on the endpoint, from native OS process management to secure, isolated execution environments.
• Operate within a dedicated Agent Pod, collaborating closely with cloud infrastructure and platform teams to deliver true end-to-end features.

BACKGROUND AND SKILLS REQUIRED

• Hands-on experience with both Go and Java, with a strength in at least one. We're a polyglot org and we value versatility across languages.
• 3 - 5 years of experience designing, developing, testing, and monitoring applications deployed in a high availability SaaS environment.
• A strong appreciation for resource-constrained environments and system-level performance optimization.
• A passion for cross-platform edge development and navigating the unique behaviors of different operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS).
• Experience or strong interest in how local client software interacts securely and efficiently with large-scale cloud backends.
• Secure Coding experience such as experience with OWASP, Vulnerability Assessments, Threat Modeling, Secure Code Review, Penetration Testing, Data Protection, Encryption, Authentication & Authorization OR similar experience related to secure coding is a huge preference.
• Experience building production applications in cloud environments (AWS or GCP) with a strong emphasis on security best practices.
• Experience working as a Software Engineer on applications with continuous client connectivity is desired.
• Enjoy scaling microservice architectures and large-scale event ingestion platforms. Have familiarity scaling websockets, real-time messaging systems (Kafka, MQTT), and non-relational database systems like DynamoDB, networking, DevOps.
• Excellent communicator, thrives within a tightly knit, cross-functional remote team environment.
• Impactful collaborator working with other engineers, Product Managers, Program Managers and Technical Support.

HOW WE WORK

We run a 70/20/10 model across our engineering pods: 70% of sprint capacity goes to primary roadmap, 20% to tech debt and service health, and 10% to learning and exploration. That last 10% is protected — it's how we invest in our engineers and stay sharp as a team.

We're moving toward full service ownership, where the team that builds it, runs it. That means you'll understand your services at a level most engineers don't get to — cost profiles, failure modes, operational behavior — and you'll have the autonomy to make them better.

We have an Architecture Review Board (led by our Principal Engineer) that provides guardrails and review for significant technical decisions. You'll have input there as your experience grows.