Systems Software Engineer, Information Security

Systems Software Engineer, Information Security

Austin, Texas, United States Corporate Functions

As an Engineer in Apple Information Security, you will:

• Be designing, developing and deploying robust, scalable services and platforms that enable secure operations across the organization.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging security research, technologies and methodologies.
• Have experience performing root cause analysis to identify, understand, and address issues.
• Support, tune, and perfect Apple’s information security products for resiliency in hostile environments.
• Be a teammate, a leader, a student, and a mentor.
• Be challenged to work under pressure and with ambiguity.
• Be adept at shifting directions and priorities.
• Be detail-oriented and self-motivated.
• Excellent at multitasking, organizing, and prioritizing complex projects to meet deadlines.
• Cultivate your network by meeting new colleagues from across the business.
• Believe that automation, tooling and testing are critical parts of the software lifecycle.

• Strong skills in common systems programming languages.
• Understanding of operating system fundamentals.
• Experience with framework and daemon development.
• Experience with hardware and/or software development lifecycle processes.
• Understanding of the latest configuration management technologies, security issues, and protocols.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization frameworks and protocols, e.g. OAuth/OpenID/SAML.
• Working knowledge of network security and applied cryptography.
• Ability to transition seamlessly to new technologies/frameworks.
• Ability to develop new and innovative applications as well as maintaining existing code.
• Ability to thrive in a self-directed, fast-paced environment, that is highly collaborative and multi-functional.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical people across functional teams.
• Ability to build and maintain strong internal and external collaborative relationships.

• Experience in system architecture development, including driver and firmware development.
• Experience with developing and shipping high quality software products on iOS/macOS/tvOS.
• Ability to comprehend hardware specs and schematics.
• Programming background, in Swift, C, C++ or Objective-C.

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