Apple

Manager, Memory & Symbolication Tools

Apple$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of macOS and/or iOS development experience
  • Expertise in Swift and C, C++, or Objective-C
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Passion for mentoring and providing actionable feedback
  • Deep understanding of operating systems, process lifecycles, and crashes
  • Detail-oriented coding skill for edge cases and security implications
  • Experience in computer science or related field, equivalent to a 4-year degree

Responsibilities

  • Lead a small team to drive technical projects in memory analysis tools
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams on hardware and software optimization
  • Shape the team's vision and enhance tool intelligence and visualization
  • Author and review code daily, ensuring high standards
  • Anticipate potential challenges early and communicate solutions effectively
  • Independently drive development projects while fostering innovation
  • Craft simple solutions to complex problems related to OS behavior

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on critical tools used globally by developers
  • Engage with innovative technologies in a renowned environment
  • Collaborative team atmosphere fostering knowledge sharing
  • Mentorship opportunities for personal and professional growth
  • Access to resources that encourage continuous learning and improvement
Full Job Description
What can you learn about a suspended or crashed program? That's the mission of the Memory & Symbolication Tools team, building tools for introspecting program state on Apple platforms. Working at the common Darwin OS layers beneath these platforms, the team owns tools like `leaks`, `heap`, `vmmap`, `sample`, and `symbols`, along with symbolication frameworks and APIs. These are foundational to OS services and profiling tools that report, triage, and fix memory bugs, and they must be efficient, robust, and secure. Symbolication is critical to billions of devices daily, and these tools are used by developers worldwide. \n\nThis specific role is for a highly technical manager to lead a small team, working alongside other engineering experts to support new hardware and software optimizations. In addition, you'll help shape the team's vision and bring better intelligence and visualization to these tools. It's a detail-oriented engineering leader role, where you'd be authoring and reviewing code on a daily basis.

We're looking for developers who are passionate about improving software! This is within the Xcode Runtime Tools team, and core interests should include optimization, reverse engineering, security, debugging, graph theory, and data visualization. You should have an interest in all levels of the system with the ability to connect OS concepts like virtual memory with language-level tools such as runtime reflection and Swift Concurrency. With every new technology, framework, or product, there's a need for tools to understand system behavior. That's why it's key you have a strong passion for learning! You'll need to work effectively with Apple teams across different engineering disciplines, anticipate problems early, and communicate ideas clearly. You should be able to drive development projects independently, working with other teams to innovate and develop simple solutions to complex problems. Memory is a limited shared resource, and optimizing it is critical for Apps and services to maintain competitive advantage. Apple's tools distill process VM and heap into a portable .memgraph format for later analysis, containing type information, address space layout, and connectivity of objects on the heap. For a more in-depth introduction to these tools, check out: Analyze Heap Memory Symbolication is all about undoing compiler and linker optimizations, mapping runtime addresses back to the symbols and source code that generated them. Apple's tools require a deep knowledge of the Mach-O binary format and familiarity with DWARF, and they must be resilient to malformed input as a critical part of diagnosing crashes and other fatal runtime conditions. To learn more, check out: Symbolication: Beyond the Basics

5+ years macOS and/or iOS development experience Expertise in Swift and C, C++, or Objective-C Excellent verbal and written communication skills Passion for mentoring others and providing clear and actionable feedback Ability to facilitate creative, pragmatic, solution-focused technical discussions Strong operating systems understanding around process lifecycle and crashes Detail-oriented coding skill, especially for edge cases and security implications Experience in computer science or a related field commensurate with a 4-year degree

Prior engineering management experience Problem solving and debugging skills with lldb, gdb, or other interactive tools Experience using AI technologies in authoring, reviewing, and debugging code History of designing, implementing, or improving development tools Familiarity with reverse engineering, exploit analysis, or fuzzing tools Understanding of macOS internals, Mach-O binaries, and Mach APIs If possible, we'd love to see an example of your relevant work, such as a personal project or open source contribution If you believe you have relevant transferable skills not listed on this posting, please share that information via a Cover Letter

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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