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# Software Engineering Manager - Apple Security Identity

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $195,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), User Authentication, Authentication Protocols, Data Validation, Digital Signature, Memory Management, Fault Tolerance, Identity and Access Management, OAuth, Software Engineering, Multithreading, Transport Layer Security, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Production Code, Software Coding, Restful APIs, Docker, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** October 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/28097316/Software-Engineering-Manager-Apple-Security-Identity-Washington-Seattle-7413

## About the Role

* 1+ years of experience leading people or teams, mentor, or project lead, 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 and storage, performance and scale

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization

Working knowledge of securing APIs, including input validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms for RESTful and gRPC APIs

Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience managing engineers, including hiring and performance feedback

Knowledge of policy-based authorization mechanisms and engines, including Open Policy Agent/Rego or Zanzibar

Knowledge of authentication mechanisms, including OAuth, JWT, and 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-level work, including configuring and troubleshooting system initialization processes

## Description

Apple Services Engineering Security org is looking for a Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers in the Identity space. You will play a pivotal role in designing and leading a multi-year Identity strategy that will be the future for Identities for services at Apple.

You and your team will design, build, and operate micro-services and capabilities that handle millions of API requests daily to vend identities for infrastructure and applications. You'll work with your teams to establish a long running execution plan for the org, taking ownership of important department-level and company-level OKRs, and regularly communicate status, roadmap and risks to critical partners, including top level leadership.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, goal setting, and career growth conversations

Participate in hiring, interviewing, and onboarding of new team members

Contribute to performance reviews and calibration, with guidance from your manager

Plan and track team work: break down roadmap goals, prioritize, estimate, and remove blockers to keep delivery on track

Partner with senior engineers on design and code reviews, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure

Support operational excellence for production services, including on-call health, incident response, and post-incident reviews

Work with customer teams to drive adoption of minimum security requirements, and track and report progress

Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to your manager, stakeholders, and partner teams

Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture with strong engineering practices

Stay technical enough to understand team designs and trade-offs, with limited hands-on coding as the team requires