Cloud Security Engineer

The Apple Service & Engineering (ASE) Compute team is building the next generation cloud compute services empowering Apple's software developers to build the products our customers love. We're a fast-moving, highly-skilled team designing, developing and supporting the orchestrated, container-based compute platform that Apple's server-side developers use to build, test and deploy their products. Our web-scale implementation hosts Apple's core cloud services and has to stay highly available, secure, and "just work". That's a tall order, and we're looking to add more talented, passionate engineers who enjoy solving distributed systems challenges and build solutions to a variety of outstanding security challenges, and build the identity and authorization infrastructure. If you're curious, collaborative, and want to join us, we'd love to hear from you.

Description

Do you enjoy working on reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance limits of web-services? You should...

• Work with security professionals to evaluate your team's code and design accordingly to their recommendations.

• Be curious about how systems work and, more meaningfully, how they fail.

• Be comfortable designing major security features and able to resolve highly complex issues creatively.

• Drive ideas from inception to implementation establishing a reputation sought out throughout the organization for advice and consultation through setting standards, process and technical direction.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent with emphasis in security related fields

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in cloud security engineering,

• Experience in distributed cloud computing.

• Advanced programming language proficiency in Go (or comparable object-oriented language) with experience designing and developing efficient, secured, scalable, and reliable production systems.

• Keeps up with industry trends in security technology

• Experience working on high volume services

• A critical eye for correct code

• Proficiency in testing your software

• Ability to parse user requirements and develop production-quality solutions.

• Kubernetes developing experience is a huge plus.

• Understanding of Identity and Access Management and Zero Trust Architecture

• Understanding of OAuth2/OIDC

• Fluency navigating Linux production environments

Pay & Benefits

• 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 $138,900 and $256,500, 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.