Senior Software Engineer

Austin,Texas,United States

Software and Services

The Apple Services Security team is the team that secures iCloud services, media products and the infrastructure that powers it. Our team is looking for a senior engineer to tackle new and complicated software problems and implement new security products and features. As a software engineer on our team, you will collaborate with other developers, site reliability engineers, and security teams to write software to protect Apple Services. We are looking for someone to design and implement a secure foundation for services. In this role you will write and own software that runs on all of Apple’s cloud fleet to ensure it has the best security in the world.

**Key Qualifications**

+ Proven track record of delivering high quality enterprise software

+ Experience writing applications in a systems programming language (e.g. C, C++, Golang, Rust, Zig)

+ Solid understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle

+ Knowledgeable of distributed systems design patterns and security implications, as well as common infrastructure components including: network architecture, server fleet provisioning

+ and configuration, Out-Of-Band management, storage, load balancing, virtualization, Kubernetes

+ In-depth knowledge of technologies such as Web Services, RPCs (gRPC, REST), HTTP 2, TLS/SSL, TCP/IP, Caching solutions, application performance tuning

+ Deep understanding of Object Oriented and SOA design concepts

+ Experience with OS X, Linux, Shell Scripting

+ Experience in designing and handling systems with high performance, scalability and availability

+ Ability to work in a collaborative team environment on fast paced projects

**Description**

We own design, implementation, and execution of applications for Security use cases. Goals for this role will include authoring software that does security vulnerability detection and prevention at Apple’s scale. We handle ambiguity quite often at Apple. The ideal candidate has experience distilling use cases and requirements down to make them into software applications. Another vital aspect of this role is collaboration. We regularly partner with our direct team and stakeholders on projects. We are a small team of senior software engineers that work to establish great partnerships with multi-functional teams. We are looking for a senior engineer who is an excellent written and verbal communicator.

**Education & Experience**

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent proven experience

**Additional Requirements**

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