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
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 Security

As a Senior Software Engineer, Identity Security (Golang/Swift), 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. To succeed, you must build and operate large-scale, highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. You will utilize Golang, Swift, Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization technologies to solve identity challenges at scale. Your role requires expertise in operating system concepts, RESTful and gRPC API security, cryptographic protocols like TLS/SSL, and policy-based authorization mechanisms such as Open Policy Agent or Zanzibar to secure data and infrastructure.

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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.
  • Build and operate highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems in production environments.
  • Secure RESTful and gRPC APIs through robust input validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
  • Implement policy-based authorization and identity management protocols like OAuth and JWT.
  • Respond to and manage security incidents effectively within the organization.

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

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