Senior Software Engineer, Identity Security (Golang)

Austin Denver Until 9/21/2026 7+ years exp First posted July 23, 2026 Last posted July 23, 2026
Job description

We are the Workload Identity team in the Apple Services Engineering Security org. Our team’s primary responsibility is to manage and establish identities for software applications, services, and containers to securely access cloud resources, ensuring proper authentication and authorization for these workloads without requiring manual credential management. We are expanding our team and looking to add a Senior Software Engineer who will play a critical role in ensuring our customers adhere to the latest and most effective security practices for addressing identity. We are looking for a passionate and talented technical lead software engineer who will focus on creating fundamental security services, addressing identity challenges on a large scale within the ASE organization. Success in this role requires individuals to possess a blend of profound technical expertise, extensive knowledge in security, and substantial experience in large-scale operations.

Description

Your duties in this role will include defining, advocating, and driving the adoption of a standardized set of minimum security requirements while monitoring progress. You will have direct influence on the future of our security protocols, guiding engineering teams as they incorporate secure practices and tools into their development processes.

Minimum Qualifications

7+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment
5 + years of experience writing production code in Golang, as you’ll be working extensively with Go-based applications
Proven experience building and operating large scale, highly available, distributed, and fault tolerant systems
Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization (CNCF Kubernetes Developer or equivalent)
Knowledge of securing APIs, including input validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms for RESTful and gRPC APIs
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of policy-based authorization mechanisms and engines, including Open Policy Agent/Rego or Zanzibar, policy lifecycle management principles and patterns
Knowledge of authentication mechanisms, including OAuth, JWT, 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, including the ability to configure and troubleshoot system initialization processes

About this role

Summary

Develop security services and protocols for large-scale identity and access management systems.

Job title

Senior Software Engineer, Identity Security (Golang)

Experience level

7+ years

Minimum experience

7+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

must be in Austin, Denver, or Seattle, remote allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

golangdistributed systemskubernetesAPI securitysecurity protocols

Preferred skills

policy-based authorizationOAuthJWTcryptography

Specializations

securityidentity managementgolangcontainerizationdistributed systems
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Austin, TX, USA

Hybrid City

Denver, CO, USA

Hybrid City

Seattle, WA, USA

Hybrid City