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# Senior Security Software Engineer, Datacenter Infrastructure Security

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** User Authentication, Intelligent Platform Management Interface, Code Review, Data Centers, Firmware, Protocol Buffers, PostgreSQL, Network Segmentation, Public Key Infrastructure, X.509, Zero Trust Network Access, Security Software, Security Information and Event Management, Software Engineering, AI Coding Agents, Information Technology, U-Boot, Splunk, Grpc
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/28115868/Senior-Security-Software-Engineer-Datacenter-Infrastructure-Security-Texas-Austin-7413

## About the Role

8+ years of software engineering experience, including end-to-end ownership of a production system or platform

Deep proficiency in Go, with 5+ years writing production Go code.

Experience building security telemetry for SIEM and detection pipelines (e.g., Splunk, OpenTelemetry)

Hands-on experience with authentication and authorization at scale, including PKI, mTLS, X.509 certificate identity and fine-grained access control

Experience with Swift, and Rust

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with server management technologies such as IPMI, DMTF Redfish, OpenBMC, or vendor BMCs (e.g., HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC)

Experience finding and fixing security flaws in networked services through code review, threat modeling or security testing

A track record of technical leadership: driving architecture decisions and cross-team migrations, mentoring engineers, and explaining security trade-offs to engineers and leadership

Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers, and with running PostgreSQL in production

Experience managing the lifecycle of secrets and credentials at fleet scale, including rotation and emergency access

Experience building and operating highly available, distributed services that other teams depend on

Familiarity with network segmentation and zero-trust access patterns, such as identity-aware proxies

Knowledge of firmware security, including secure boot, firmware signing and updates, TPMs and hardware roots of trust

Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants on a production codebase

## Description

We're looking for a senior engineer to take technical ownership of the platform that manages our baseboard management controllers. You'll set its engineering and security bar, shape how access is granted and verified, and lead its move toward modern, standards-based management. You'll work closely with datacenter operations, SRE, hardware, network and detection teams, and become the go-to expert on managing Apple's fleet securely.