Senior Software Engineer, Customer Data Protection

Summary

Imagine what we could do together. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what we could accomplish. Apple is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next generation of cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on key components of iCloud and introducing new fundamental capabilities. Our team is responsible for ensuring the protection of iCloud customer data and we contribute to groundbreaking products such as Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, ensuring customer data remains secure end-to-end. Our team is also responsible for the hardware integrity initiatives for Apple silicon in data centers, supporting critical platforms such as Private Cloud Compute. This is your chance to put a dent in the Universe. You will work with world‑class teams who have a real passion for engineering and delivering features that maintain strong privacy guarantees to end users.

Description

We are a high-leverage team designing, building, and growing Apple’s foundational privacy-focused platform enabling many of Apple’s signature apps and experiences. Our work impacts over a billion users and is essential to the success of Apple’s growth in services.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality to enable new experiences in the Apple ecosystem
• Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of our services
• Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth across multiple dimensions
• Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues

Minimum Qualifications

• Experienced in managing technical and organisational complexity, able to drive a project from a simple idea to production
• Excellent communication skills, able to build relationships with diverse groups of people
• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems
• Working experience with programming languages of Java, Swift, C, Go, or Python
• Experience in cloud deployment and monitoring technologies, such as Kubernetes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in performance benchmarking, debugging, and tuning distributed systems
• Deep understanding of cryptographic protocols, data encryption, secure key management, and security architectures.
• Experience with hardware security modules (HSMs) and secure enclave technologies.
• Adept at approaching problems from a position of curiosity, working with flexibility to find innovative solutions.

At Apple, we’re not all the same. And that’s our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we’ve experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law.

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Role Number: 200674524-2114