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# User Secrets - Software Engineer, SEAR

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Cupertino, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $147,400.0 - $272,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Apple Watch, Apple TV, C++ (Programming Language), Data Synchronization, Distributed Systems, Key Management, Systems Development Life Cycle, Cloud Services, System Programming, Information Technology, Operating System Security
- **Published:** May 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e5a41cce8a330d95

## About the Role

Do you have experience in System design for system development?, 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer in a Systems Programming or Distributed Systems development role

Excellent collaboration and leadership skills

Ability to dive into and understand unfamiliar codebases and systems

Ability to deliver proven work on tight schedules

Swift, Obj-C, C, C++ experience

Minimum Qualifications

A genuine passion for building effective, scalable, and useful tools for users to safeguard their most precious data

Exposure to and knowledge of OS security, applied cryptography, and key management

Ability to understand and drive architectural changes to complex distributed systems with backward-compatibility requirements

M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

## Description

You will join a team that builds systems to securely store and sync a user's private data, including passwords, encryption keys, and other critical secrets, across all of Apple's innovative products (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Vision Pro). As an engineer, you will influence the design and implementation of Apple's embedded and desktop operating system products, collaborating closely with all other security partners, ranging from our Operating System kernel group to our Cloud Services architects. You will contribute code and technical know-how from the inner levels of the on-device OS to hosted iCloud services which, together, enable usable end-to-end encrypted data synchronization for users. You will be a generalist capable of tackling wide-ranging engineering problems anywhere in the software stack, resolving conflict and balancing compromises between several factors such as ease of use, performance, and security. You will work towards our goal of ensuring that users'
secrets stay their own, and that privacy is available to all. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!


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