Security Software Engineer, User Secrets

Join Apple's Security Engineering & Architecture organization as part of the User Secrets team. Your mission will be to ensure user's secret data remains private using Apple's hardware and software to deliver world-class encrypted data storage, synchronization, and recovery options. You'll contribute to the most secure operating systems globally, impacting billions of customers.

As a Security Software Engineer, you'll work on foundations for storing and syncing users' private data, including passwords, encryption keys, and other critical secrets across all Apple products (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV). Your responsibilities will span from the lowest levels of the device's OS to iCloud services, all working together to protect users.

You'll influence the design and implementation of Apple's embedded and desktop operating system products, collaborating with various security partners. As a generalist, you'll tackle wide-ranging engineering problems throughout the software stack, balancing factors like ease of use, performance, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the entire system, from low-level OS to iCloud services
• Improve the experience of every Apple user through your code
• Collaborate with various teams across Apple's technology stack
• Resolve conflicts and balance compromises between different factors
• Work towards ensuring users' secrets stay private and accessible to all

Required Qualifications:

• Genuine passion for building effective, scalable, and useful tools for user data protection
• Excellent C and systems programming skills
• Knowledge of OS security, applied cryptography, and key management
• M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of distributed systems and their challenges
• Excellent collaboration skills
• Ability to deliver proven work on tight schedules
• iOS and macOS exposure (end user, administrator, developer)
• Swift, Obj-C, C, C++ experience
• Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases and systems

Join Apple to help push their security technologies to the next level and make a significant impact on user privacy and data protection.