Software Engineering Manager, Security Identity

What you'll do

• Design and lead a multi-year Identity strategy for Apple services.
• Manage the design, build, and operation of micro-services handling millions of daily API requests.
• Break down roadmap goals, prioritize tasks, and remove blockers to ensure on-time delivery.
• Partner with senior engineers on design and code reviews to ensure scalable and secure solutions.
• Support operational excellence through on-call health, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Drive adoption of minimum security requirements with customer teams and report on progress.
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders and top-level leadership.
• Lead and develop a team of software engineers through 1:1s, goal setting, and performance reviews.

What we're looking for

• 1+ years of experience leading people, teams, mentoring, or project leadership with a strong interest in management as a career.
• 7+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment.
• Experience writing production code in Golang or Swift.
• Experience building and operating highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Solid understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization.
• Working knowledge of securing APIs, including input validation, authentication, and authorization for RESTful and gRPC APIs.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Prior experience managing engineers, including hiring and performance feedback (preferred).
• Knowledge of policy-based authorization mechanisms, including Open Policy Agent/Rego or Zanzibar (preferred).
• Knowledge of authentication mechanisms, including OAuth, JWT, and other identity management protocols (preferred).
• Familiarity with incident response processes and the ability to respond to security incidents effectively (preferred).
• Knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for securing data, including TLS/SSL, digital signatures, hashing, and encryption (preferred).
• Hands-on experience with systems-level work, including configuring and troubleshooting system initialization processes (preferred).