Staff Software Engineer - Core

8+ years of experience as a software engineer, with significant time spent on desktop/client applications or endpoint software deployed to customer-managed devices.

Deep Windows platform expertise: installer engineering (MSI/EXE, WiX Toolset, silent install options), Windows services, the registry, UAC/elevation, and code signing and trust chains.

Strong PowerShell and scripting skills for install/uninstall automation, service and registry management, and logging/reporting.

Hands-on experience deploying software at scale through enterprise systems-management tools -- Intune, Group Policy, SCCM, and/or PDQ Deploy -- and familiarity with their packaging, assignment, and version-detection models.

Experience building or integrating auto-update systems: background updaters, differential updates, signed packages, CDN delivery, and scheduled update triggers.

Working knowledge of endpoint security and compliance realities: certificate-based trust, endpoint-protection tool behavior, and customer environments with no outbound connectivity or offline installation requirements.

This position sits on the Core team, which owns the GG App -- the client application that brings GoGuardian’s filtering and safety capabilities to macOS, Windows, and iOS devices.

The Core team is responsible for the full lifecycle of the app on customer devices: packaging and code signing, silent and at-scale deployment through the tools school IT departments already use (Intune, GPO, SCCM, PDQ, Jamf, and MDM), auto-update infrastructure, and the health and reporting systems that tell us and our customers that every install is working.

In this role, you’ll contribute to the full software development lifecycle -- from conception, research, definition, scoping, planning, implementation, and testing, to documentation, delivery, and maintenance.

The ideal candidate is curious, able to manage risk, and driven to deliver quality software that runs reliably on hundreds of thousands of school-managed devices.

Design, build, and maintain the GG App across Windows, macOS, and iOS, including installers, background services, and update mechanisms.

Own Windows installer engineering: MSI/EXE packages built with the WiX Toolset, silent install and uninstall flows (/quiet, /norestart), upgrade paths, and code signing that keeps us clear of SmartScreen and Defender blocks.