Senior Software Security Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
USD 175k-308,500 / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 12, 2026
The Apple Services Engineering Security team is looking for an outstanding software engineer to build and integrate software to secure workloads across the next generation of data centers. In this highly collaborative role, you will be at the center of multiple efforts to secure diverse compute workloads. You will be part of a team that builds and maintains system software such as runtime libraries, frameworks, and network services. You will partner with teams across Apple to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform and will help to build the foundation of our future cloud architecture. We are looking for someone with proven mastery building and managing scalable, resilient systems. You should have a strong mix of education and practical experience with a real passion for diving head first into challenging problems. Be ready to make something phenomenal when you come here. Dynamic and industry-defining technologies are the norm at Apple. The people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with our products. The same real passion for innovation also applies to our business practices - strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
In this role, you will design, build, maintain and operate the core system infrastructure that powers the next generation of data centers. You will collaborate with diverse technical teams to develop cutting-edge Identity and Authorization software, ensuring it meets the highest standards of security, scalability, and reliability.
- 5 years of professional experience with the Go programming language
- 7 + years writing high-quality, reliable code, including unit and integration tests, and maintaining clear and concise documentation
- Solid operating system fundamentals with IPC, Sockets, Virtualization, etc.
- Experience developing gRPC / REST-based backend services
- Excellent communication skills, both written and presentation
- Experience with concurrency and multithreaded development
- Ability to coach colleagues and give impactful feedback
- Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software
- Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Proficiency in one of C/C++, Obj-C
- Experience with Kubernetes and familiarity with containers
- Good understanding of PKI
- Experience with optimizing complex CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools
- Experience in macOS Development, XPC