Senior Software Engineer, Identity Security

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted
94 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 Security

The Senior Software Engineer, Identity Security (Golang/Swift) joins the Workload Identity team within the Apple Services Engineering Security organization. This role involves creating fundamental security services to manage and establish identities for software applications, services, and containers to securely access cloud resources without manual credential management. You will define and drive the adoption of standardized minimum security requirements while guiding engineering teams to incorporate secure practices into their development processes. Key responsibilities include building and operating large-scale, highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. Required technical skills include production experience in Golang or Swift, Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization. You must understand operating systems, networking, and storage, while possessing knowledge of securing RESTful and gRPC APIs through authentication and authorization mechanisms.

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What you'll do

  • Manage and establish identities for software applications, services, and containers to securely access cloud resources.
  • Develop fundamental security services to address identity challenges on a large scale.
  • Define and drive the adoption of standardized minimum security requirements across the organization.
  • Monitor progress on security requirement adoption and advocate for best practices.
  • Guide engineering teams in incorporating secure practices and tools into their development processes.
  • Build and operate large-scale, highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.
  • Secure APIs by implementing input validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms for RESTful and gRPC services.
  • Configure and troubleshoot system initialization processes and containerized environments.

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 or Swift.
  • 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, authentication protocols, incident response, cryptography, and system troubleshooting (preferred).

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