Senior Identity Security Engineer (Go) - Scale & Secure

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Identity Security focused on Go-based services, large-scale workloads, and secure authentication/authorization across REST and gRPC APIs.

You will define and drive a standardized set of security requirements, mentor engineering teams, and implement foundational security services that scale across the ASE organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment.
• 5+ years of experience writing production code in Golang for 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Defining, advocating, and driving the adoption of a standardized set of minimum security requirements while monitoring progress. You will influence the future of security protocols and guide engineering teams to incorporate secure practices and tools into development processes.

Skills

Golang production code

Large-scale distributed systems

OS concepts

Kubernetes & Docker

API security

Security leadership

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Apple Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Identity Security focused on Go-based services, large-scale workloads, and secure authentication/authorization across REST and gRPC APIs.

You will define and drive a standardized set of security requirements, mentor engineering teams, and implement foundational security services that scale across the ASE organization.