Senior Client Platform Engineer, Endpoint Platform – Automation

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. Lead the FleetDM migration by defining scope, requirements, architecture, dependencies, and a phased delivery plan.

Posted 11/12/2026full-timeRemote • CanadaSenior💰 CA$125,000 - CA$170,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in engineering enterprise endpoint platforms with a focus on Windows, macOS, or Linux, alongside strong programming skills in Python, Go, or PowerShell. Capable of leading multi-phase platform migrations while ensuring operational continuity and effective cross-functional collaboration.

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Enterprise Endpoint Platform EngineeringMulti-Phase Platform MigrationProgramming Skills in Python, Go, PowerShellGit and Automated DeploymentMonitoring and Operational Workflows

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Hard Skills

Enterprise Endpoint PlatformsPythonGoPowerShellGitSQLOsqueryAPI IntegrationOperational AutomationConfiguration Management

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

FleetDMIntuneJamfITSM Services

Industry Keywords

Endpoint ManagementOperational WorkflowsDevice EnrollmentPolicy ManagementSecurity Integration

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ITSMJamfLinuxMacOSPythonSQLGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the FleetDM migration by defining scope, requirements, architecture, dependencies, and a phased delivery plan.
Engineer and operate the shared platform, maintaining configuration, agent workflows, policies, queries, integrations, and operational automation.
Build version-controlled configuration with automated checks, peer review, controlled rollout, drift detection, and recovery.
Validate capabilities and coexistence, identify gaps, clarify management authority, and determine responsibilities for migration or retention.
Establish trustworthy device populations, data freshness, enrollment and agent health, and owned remediation workflows.
Protect service continuity through representative pilots, acceptance gates, employee-impact checks, and pause and recovery decisions.
Create reusable patterns and documentation, and provide support coverage through pairing, mentoring, and operational handoffs.
Reduce recurring manual work and recommend tooling consolidation where evidence supports it.
Partner with Windows, macOS, Linux, Security, IAM, CorpInfra, and support teams.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring as an individual contributor.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant hands-on experience engineering enterprise endpoint platforms, including deep expertise in at least one of Windows, macOS, or Linux and experience working across OS boundaries.
Personal ownership of a multi-phase platform migration or comparable change, including discovery, pilots, rollout, recovery, and operational handover.
Strong practical programming or scripting skills, such as Python, Go, PowerShell, or shell, with production automation and API integration experience.
Demonstrated use of Git, code review, automated checks, and controlled deployment for configuration or infrastructure changes.
Ability to diagnose enrollment, agent, policy, identity, networking, and integration failures and distinguish missing data from healthy devices.
Experience establishing monitoring, failure handling, least-privilege access, secrets management, and maintainable operational workflows.
Ability to independently define priorities, align cross-functional stakeholders, communicate trade-offs, and mentor engineers.
Clear written and verbal communication and effective asynchronous collaboration across regions.
Preferred: Production experience with FleetDM configuration, policies, queries, APIs, agent operations, or deployment automation.
Preferred: Practical osquery and SQL experience, including query validation, performance considerations, targeting, and stale or missing results.
Preferred: Migration or coexistence experience involving Intune, Jamf, or comparable endpoint-management platforms.
Preferred: Experience integrating endpoint platforms with identity, security, inventory, or ITSM services.
Preferred: Experience supporting developer-heavy, distributed environments.
Preferred: Demonstrated improvements in platform operating effort, tool consolidation, or lifecycle cost.