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Software Engineering Manager - Apple Security Identity

Seattle, WAOnsiteFull TimeManager / HeadPosted 28 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Apple Security Identity
  • software engineers
  • Golang
  • Swift
  • highly available
  • distributed
  • fault-tolerant systems
  • operating systems concepts
  • multi-threading
  • memory management

Nice to have

  • performance feedback
  • policy-based authorization mechanisms
  • engines
  • Open Policy Agent
  • Rego
  • Zanzibar

Role summary

Apple Security Identity team is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers. This role involves designing and implementing a multi-year identity strategy for Apple's services, including iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps. The manager will be responsible for the day-to-day direction of engineers, delivering solutions to security challenges, and ensuring high security standards. Key responsibilities include designing, building, and operating micro-services handling millions of API requests, establishing execution plans, owning OKRs, and communicating roadmaps and risks to leadership. The role requires a strong technical background and experience in leading teams.

People at Apple don’t just build products, they craft the kind of experiences that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. The Apple Security Identity team builds and provides identities to infrastructure and services that fuel Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are looking to hire a Software Engineering Manager with a proven track record of strong technical while leading a team software engineers. You will be responsible for providing day-to-day directions and managing activities of these engineers to deliver against the Apple Security Identity goals. Your effort will help build solutions to a variety of outstanding security challenges. You’ll play a meaningful role in ensuring the highest standard of security for one of the most-watched companies in the world. Join us, and leave the world better than we found it.

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.

Minimum Qualifications


* 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

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    Design a system to schedule jobs in a distributed environment

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  • 5

    What is an API and how does it work?

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