Senior Software Engineer, Identity

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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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 minimum security requirements while guiding other engineering teams in incorporating secure practices into their development processes. Key responsibilities involve building large-scale, highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. Required technical skills include extensive experience with Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization. The role also requires expertise in securing RESTful and gRPC APIs, understanding operating system concepts like multi-threading and memory management, and knowledge of authentication protocols such as OAuth and JWT, alongside cryptographic algorithms and policy-based authorization engines like Open Policy Agent or Zanzibar.

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Skills

Golang Kubernetes Docker REST gRPC Open Policy Agent Rego OAuth JWT TLS/SSL Containerization Identity Management Authentication Authorization Multi-threading Networking Security Protocols

What you'll do

Manage and establish identities for software applications, services, and containers to secure cloud resource access.
Develop fundamental security services to address identity challenges at a large scale.
Define and advocate for standardized minimum security requirements across the organization.
Monitor progress of engineering teams as they adopt new security practices and tools.
Write production code in Golang for high-availability, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.
Secure RESTful and gRPC APIs through robust authentication and authorization mechanisms.
Implement policy-based authorization engines and manage identity protocols like OAuth and JWT.
Configure and troubleshoot system initialization processes to ensure infrastructure stability.

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, incident response, cryptography, and system troubleshooting (preferred).

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