Embedded within Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture organization, the User Secrets team mission is to ensure that a user’s secret data stays accessible only to them, by using Apple’s hardware and software to deliver world-class encrypted data storage, synchronization, and recovery options. Our team contributes to the most secure operating systems and cloud systems in the world, and puts end-to-end encryption in the hands of billions of customers - join us to help push our technologies to the next level!

DESCRIPTION

You will join a team that builds systems to securely store and sync a user’s private data, including passwords, encryption keys, and other critical secrets, across all of Apple’s innovative products (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Vision Pro). As an engineer, you will influence the design and implementation of Apple’s embedded and desktop operating system products, collaborating closely with all other security partners, ranging from our Operating System kernel group to our Cloud Services architects. You will contribute code and technical know-how from the inner levels of the on-device OS to hosted iCloud services which, together, enable usable end-to-end encrypted data synchronization for users. You will be a generalist capable of tackling wide-ranging engineering problems anywhere in the software stack, resolving conflict and balancing compromises between several factors such as ease of use, performance, and security. You will work towards our goal of ensuring that users’ secrets stay their own, and that privacy is available to all. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• A genuine passion for building effective, scalable, and useful tools for users to safeguard their most precious data
• Exposure to and knowledge of OS security, applied cryptography, and key management
• Ability to understand and drive architectural changes to complex distributed systems with backward-compatibility requirements
• M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer in a Systems Programming or Distributed Systems development role
• Excellent collaboration and leadership skills
• Ability to dive into and understand unfamiliar codebases and systems
• Ability to deliver proven work on tight schedules
• Swift, Obj-C, C, C++ experience

Please refer the Job description for details