Senior Software Engineer, Identity

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Austin, TX
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
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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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As a Senior Software Engineer, Identity, you will join the Workload Identity team within the Apple Services Engineering Security organization. You will be responsible for managing and establishing identities for software applications, services, and containers to ensure secure access to cloud resources without manual credential management. Your daily work involves defining, advocating, and driving the adoption of standardized minimum security requirements while monitoring progress across engineering teams. You will build fundamental security services and address identity challenges on a large scale. The role requires extensive experience with Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization. You will also utilize knowledge of RESTful and gRPC APIs, policy-based authorization engines like Open Policy Agent or Zanzibar, and authentication protocols such as OAuth and JWT. Technical expertise in multi-threading, memory management, networking, and cryptographic algorithms is essential for this role.

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Skills

Golang Kubernetes Docker gRPC Open Policy Agent Rego Zanzibar OAuth JWT TLS/SSL Containerization Identity Management 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, advocate, and drive the adoption of standardized minimum security requirements.
Monitor progress on security compliance and policy adoption across engineering teams.
Guide other engineering teams in incorporating secure practices and tools into their development processes.
Write production code for high-availability, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems using Golang.
Secure RESTful and gRPC APIs through robust authentication, authorization, and input validation mechanisms.
Implement policy-based authorization and identity management protocols like OAuth and JWT.

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).