Senior Software Engineer, Identity Security

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 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. You will build fundamental security services and address identity challenges at scale. The role requires expertise in Golang or Swift, as well as experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization. Key technical competencies include securing RESTful and gRPC APIs, understanding multi-threading and memory management, and knowledge of OAuth, JWT, cryptographic algorithms, and policy-based authorization engines like Open Policy Agent or Zanzibar to solve complex identity problems.

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

What you'll do

Manage and establish identities for software applications, services, and containers to access cloud resources securely.
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 the implementation of security standards across the organization.
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 RESTful and gRPC APIs through robust input validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.

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 system 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 RESTful and gRPC APIs, including input validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
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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