Senior Software Engineer, Identity

Apple Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
1 day ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Software Applications User Authentication Authentication Protocols Data Validation Digital Signature Memory Management Fault Tolerance Identity and Access Management OAuth Software Engineering Multithreading
+8 more
Transport Layer Security Containerization Kubernetes Information Technology Production Code Restful APIs Docker Golang

Job description

We are the Workload Identity team in the Apple Services Engineering Security org. Our team’s 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.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment
  • 5 + years of experience writing production code 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
  • BS/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 patterns
  • Knowledge of authentication mechanisms, including OAuth, JWT, other identity management protocols
  • Familiarity with incident response processes and the ability to respond to security incidents effectively
  • Knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for securing data, including TLS/SSL, digital signatures, hashing, and encryption
  • Hands-on experience with Systems, including the ability to configure and troubleshoot system initialization processes

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