The Workload Identity team in Apple Services Engineering Security is responsible for managing and establishing identities for software applications, services, and containers to securely access cloud resources. They need to ensure proper authentication and authorization for these workloads without manual credential management and are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help customers adhere to the latest and most effective security practices for addressing identity, focusing on creating fundamental security services and addressing identity challenges on a large scale within the ASE organization.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in Golang, as you’ll be working extensively with Go-based applications
- 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 and 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
- Hands-on experience with Systems, including the ability to configure and troubleshoot system initialization processes
- Understanding of network security principles, protocols, and technologies, including firewalls, VPNs, and secure communication channels
- Knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for securing data, including TLS/SSL, digital signatures, hashing, and encryption
- Knowledge of authentication and authorization mechanisms, including OAuth, JWT, and other identity management protocols
Responsibilities
- defining, advocating, and driving the adoption of a standardized set of minimum security requirements while monitoring progress
- have direct influence on the future of our security protocols
- guiding engineering teams as they incorporate secure practices and tools into their development processes
- building and operating large scale, highly available, distributed, and fault tolerant systems
- securing APIs, including input validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms for RESTful and gRPC APIs
- configure and troubleshoot system initialization processes
- respond to security incidents effectively
Other
- 7+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with incident response processes
- Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
- We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
