Senior Software Engineer, Identity

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Identity

Senior Software Engineer, Identity joins the Workload Identity team within the Apple Services Engineering Security organization. This role focuses on managing and establishing identities for software applications, services, and containers to ensure secure access to cloud resources without manual credential management. The engineer will define, advocate, and drive the adoption of standardized security requirements while guiding other engineering teams in incorporating secure practices into their development processes. Day-to-day work involves building large-scale, highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. Key technical requirements include extensive experience with Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization. The role requires expertise in operating system concepts like multi-threading and memory management, as well as securing RESTful and gRPC APIs. Additional relevant skills include knowledge of OAuth, JWT, Open Policy Agent, cryptographic protocols, and managing identity challenges at a large scale within the organization.

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What you'll do

  • Manage and establish identities for software applications, services, and containers to secure cloud resource access.
  • Develop and maintain production code using Golang for large-scale, distributed systems.
  • Define and advocate for standardized minimum security requirements across the organization.
  • Monitor progress of engineering teams as they adopt new security protocols and tools.
  • Secure RESTful and gRPC APIs through robust authentication, authorization, and input validation.
  • Implement policy-based authorization mechanisms and manage identity management protocols like OAuth and JWT.
  • Configure and troubleshoot system initialization processes for high-availability infrastructure.
  • Respond to and mitigate security incidents effectively within the production environment.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment.
  • 5+ years of experience writing production code in Golang.
  • Proven experience building and operating large scale, highly available, distributed, and fault tolerant systems.
  • Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization (CNCF Kubernetes Developer or equivalent).
  • Knowledge of securing APIs, including input validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms for RESTful and gRPC APIs.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Knowledge of policy-based authorization, identity protocols (OAuth, JWT), cryptography, and system troubleshooting (preferred).

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