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The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and “just work.” If you love designing, engineering and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!

We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Senior Software Engineer who will focus on creating fundamental security services and on addressing identity and authorization challenges on a large scale within the ASE organization. Success in this role requires individuals to possess a blend of deep technical expertise, knowledge in security, and substantial experience in large-scale systems and operations.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic and expanding team. In the role of Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial part in ensuring that our systems are built to make it easy for customers to enforce to the latest and most effective security practices. Collaborating within a cross-functional team of engineering, security and product, you will be responsible for designing and implementing a best-in-class modern Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructure to bolster our overall security posture throughout the organization. You will take part in development, modernization or unification of our systems to be able to withstand the test of time and be sustainably expanded to cover a growing set of Apple’s requirements. Your duties will also include operating your services to achieve high availability and low latency SLOs. By leveraging your experience, you will set high standards for the team, influence the future of our security platform, and help build mission-critical infrastructure that will be universally used and loved by other Apple teams…

Strong programming skills in Golang and Java, as you’ll be working extensively with Go-based and Java-based systemsExperience with design and implementation of large scale, highly available, distributed, secure and fault tolerant systems and web servicesExperience in managing application performance and making decisions by with using request tracing and telemetryFamiliarity with incident response processes and the ability to respond to and prevent operational and security incidents effectivelyExcellent understanding of operating systems concepts that contribute to applications performance and scalability: multi-threading, memory management, networking, storageSolid understanding of authentication and authorization mechanisms, including OAuth, JWT, and/or other identity and access management protocolsWorking knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for securing data, including TLS/SSL, digital signatures, hashing, and encryptionBS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent (7+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment)