Senior Security Software Engineer, Datacenter Infrastructure Security

We are the Foundational Security team in Apple Services Engineering (ASE). We

secure the low-level foundations of Apple's datacenter fleet: hardware-backed

trust, disk encryption, and the systems used to manage every server below the

operating system. We're looking for a senior engineer to take technical

ownership of the platform that manages our baseboard management controllers.

You'll set its engineering and security bar, shape how access is granted and

verified, and lead its move toward modern, standards-based management. You'll

work closely with datacenter operations, SRE, hardware, network and detection

teams, and become the go-to expert on managing Apple's fleet securely.

DESCRIPTION

This role owns the design, code and security of a privileged,

availability-critical service. You'll write and review production code. You'll

find and remove risk in how the service authenticates users, authorizes them and

handles credentials, and you'll make privileged activity visible to the teams

who detect misuse. You'll also help modernize how the fleet is managed, bringing

along the many internal teams and tools that depend on the platform. Over time,

you'll help define what secure out-of-band management looks like at Apple. That

includes how access is segmented across environments, how firmware is delivered

and trusted, and what we require of management controllers in future hardware.

It also includes how access should work when the requester is an automated

system rather than a person.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

8+ years of software engineering experience, including end-to-end ownership of a

production system or platform Deep proficiency in Go, with 5+ years writing

production Go code. Experience building security telemetry for SIEM and

detection pipelines (e.g., Splunk, OpenTelemetry) Hands-on experience with

authentication and authorization at scale, including PKI, mTLS, X.509

certificate identity and fine-grained access control Experience with Swift, and

Rust BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Hands-on experience with server management technologies such as IPMI, DMTF

Redfish, OpenBMC, or vendor BMCs (e.g., HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC) Experience finding

and fixing security flaws in networked services through code review, threat

modeling or security testing A track record of technical leadership: driving

architecture decisions and cross-team migrations, mentoring engineers, and

explaining security trade-offs to engineers and leadership Experience with gRPC

and Protocol Buffers, and with running PostgreSQL in production Experience

managing the lifecycle of secrets and credentials at fleet scale, including

rotation and emergency access Experience building and operating highly

available, distributed services that other teams depend on Familiarity with

network segmentation and zero-trust access patterns, such as identity-aware

proxies Knowledge of firmware security, including secure boot, firmware signing

and updates, TPMs and hardware roots of trust Hands-on experience using AI

coding assistants on a production codebase