Senior Software Engineering Manager - Apple Security Identity - Jobs - Careers at Apple

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. 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.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, goal setting, and career growth conversations
• Participate in hiring, interviewing, and onboarding of new team members
• Contribute to performance reviews and calibration, with guidance from your manager
• Plan and track team work: break down roadmap goals, prioritize, estimate, and remove blockers to keep delivery on track
• Partner with senior engineers on design and code reviews, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure
• Support operational excellence for production services, including on-call health, incident response, and post-incident reviews
• Work with customer teams to drive adoption of minimum security requirements, and track and report progress
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to your manager, stakeholders, and partner teams
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture with strong engineering practices
• Stay technical enough to understand team designs and trade-offs, with limited hands-on coding as the team requires

• * 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

• 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

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $195,700 and $338,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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