Senior Software Engineer, Identity

We are the Workload Identity team in the Apple Services Engineering Security org. Our teams primary responsibility is to manage and establish identities for software applications services and containers to securely access cloud resources ensuring proper authentication and authorization for these workloads without requiring manual credential management. We are expanding our team and looking to add a Senior Software Engineer who will play a critical role in ensuring our customers adhere to the latest and most effective security practices for addressing identity. We are looking for a passionate and talented technical lead software engineer who will focus on creating fundamental security services addressing identity challenges on a large scale within the ASE organization. Success in this role requires individuals to possess a blend of profound technical expertise extensive knowledge in security and substantial experience in large-scale operations.

Your duties in this role will include defining advocating and driving the adoption of a standardized set of minimum security requirements while monitoring progress. You will have direct influence on the future of our security protocols guiding engineering teams as they incorporate secure practices and tools into their development processes.

7 years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environmentn5 years of experience writing production code in Golang as youll be working extensively with Go-based applicationsnProven experience building and operating large scale highly available distributed and fault tolerant systemsnExcellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading memory management networking and storage performance and scalenExperience with Kubernetes Docker and containerization (CNCF Kubernetes Developer or equivalent)nKnowledge of securing APIs including input validation authentication and authorization mechanisms for RESTful and gRPC APIsnBS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Knowledge of policy-based authorization mechanisms and engines including Open Policy Agent/Rego or Zanzibar policy lifecycle management principles and patternsnnKnowledge of authentication mechanisms including OAuth JWT other identity management protocolsnnFamiliarity with incident response processes and the ability to respond to security incidents effectivelynnKnowledge of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for securing data including TLS/SSL digital signatures hashing and encryptionnnHands-on experience with Systems including the ability to configure and troubleshoot system initialization processes