IT Systems Engineer, Client Platform Engineer, macOS
Boston · Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY · Washington, DC · New York City, NY · Friendly US (Travel Required) · San Francisco · Seattle, WA · Washington, D.C. · USD 285,000-325,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Location
- Boston · Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY · Washington, DC · New York City, NY · Friendly US (Travel Required) · San Francisco · Seattle, WA · Washington, D.C.
- Salary
- USD 285,000-325,000 / year · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
About Anthropic
- Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
- The Endpoint team (Client Platform Engineering) treats Anthropic's device fleet as a platform built and run in-house.
- You will own that platform end to end: the infrastructure underneath the MDM, configuration, patching and software pipelines, and telemetry.
- The team is deliberately lean and runs with high autonomy, allowing you to help define the endpoint roadmap and make architecture decisions.
Responsibilities
- Own endpoint configuration as code: author, review, test, and progressively roll out MDM policies, configuration profiles, and remediation scripts across macOS and mobile
- Operate the MDM platform itself as a production service, including infrastructure as code, observability, upgrades, and incident response
- Build patch management automation with rapid enforcement timelines while maintaining good user experience
- Design zero touch provisioning that turns a sealed box into a productive machine on day one
- Support a small number of Linux machines alongside the Mac fleet
- Turn fleet telemetry into policy, dashboards, and early drift warnings, and use Claude to automate manual ops work
- Partner with Corporate Security on endpoint hardening, binary authorization, and compliance controls
- Take shifts on the team's rotation for incoming requests and escalations, and serve as the deep escalation tier for endpoint issues IT Operations can't resolve
Requirements
- Have 8+ years building secure IT systems in complex environments, including leading projects across multiple teams
- Have managed endpoint fleets of thousands of macOS devices through a modern MDM
- Treat endpoint configuration as code that is version controlled and peer reviewed, rather than clicking in consoles
- Go deep on macOS internals such as launchd, configuration profiles, TCC, and system extensions
- Write Python and shell scripts
- Write design docs and runbooks so teammates can review and support what you build
Preferred qualifications
- Have operated an MDM or device management platform as a service, not only consumed one as SaaS
- Have worked with open source endpoint and device management tooling (Munki, osquery, AutoPkg)
- Have built automated, progressive rollout systems with promotion gated on telemetry
- Have experience running infrastructure as code in a public cloud
- Have working knowledge of Linux administration (packaging, systems, config management)
- Have used LLMs to automate ops work
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Workplace
- Location-based hybrid policy: expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more time in offices.
Skills
- macOS
- Python
- Shell Scripts
- MDM
- Launchd
- Configuration Profiles
- TCC
- System Extensions
- Munki
- Osquery
- AutoPkg
- Linux
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- Infrastructure As Code
- LLMs
