Identity Platform Engineering Manager

Apple; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Services Engineering Security seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers in the Identity space. You will design and execute a multi-year Identity strategy for services at Apple, building and operating micro-services that handle millions of API requests daily to vend identities for infrastructure and apps.

You will own roadmaps, drive OKRs, and communicate status to partners, leadership, and stakeholders while maintaining strong security and reliability standards.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience leading people or teams, mentor, or project lead.
• 7+ years of software development or production operations in large-scale env.
• Experience writing production code in Golang or Swift.
• Experience building and operating highly available, distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
• Solid understanding of OS concepts including multi-threading, memory, networking, storage, performance.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization.
• Working knowledge of securing APIs, including authN/authZ for REST/gRPC.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and cross-team collaboration.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers with regular 1:1s and growth plans.
• Participate in hiring, interviewing, and onboarding of new team members.
• Contribute to performance reviews and calibration guidance from management.
• Plan and track team work, break down roadmap goals, estimate, and remove blockers.
• Partner with senior engineers on design and code reviews for scalable, secure solutions.
• Support operational excellence for production services, incl. on-call health and post-incident reviews.
• Work with customer teams to drive adoption of minimum security requirements and report progress.
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to manager and partners.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture with strong engineering practices.

Skills

Leadership

Team mentoring

Golang

Swift

API security

Distributed systems

Communication

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Apple Services Engineering Security seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers in the Identity space. You will design and execute a multi-year Identity strategy for services at Apple, building and operating micro-services that handle millions of API requests daily to vend identities for infrastructure and apps.

You will own roadmaps, drive OKRs, and communicate status to partners, leadership, and stakeholders while maintaining strong security and reliability standards.