At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming revolutionary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish.\\n\\nThe Emerging Technologies team specializes in building forward-looking, extremely scalable platforms. The team has a passion for solving challenging problems, exploring new domains, and engineering transformational solutions. The diversity of our team and thinking inspires innovation that runs through everything we do.\\n\\nIn this role, you will work with a talented team to design and develop Apple’s perimeter security solution, which safeguards mission-critical services and systems from a wide range of security threats. It is a world-class solution that offers protection across various network layers, web application firewall (WAF) capabilities, authentication offloading, traffic management, and more. It provides increased availability, fault tolerance, and access control for Apple’s internal and external applications and services.
We are looking for a self-directed, talented Software Engineer to design and develop the control plane of our security platform. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Data Plane and other cross-functional teams to build novel features for the platform. The ideal candidate will be hands-on with coding and have expertise in building and tuning high-performance services and in creating robust, scalable distributed systems.
Data Engineering Leadership: Lead the architectural design and implementation of scalable, low-latency batch and real-time data pipelines to aggregate, process, and analyze massive volumes of security data. \\nPlatform Engineering Leadership: Architect, deploy, and scale highly resilient micro-services and platform infrastructure supporting mission-critical, customer-facing anti-abuse engines.\\nCulture \u0026 Ownership (\\"You Build It, You Own It\\"): Champion a \\"You Build It, You Own It\\" engineering culture by setting architectural standards and taking end-to-end accountability for system health, performance, deployment automation, and operational readiness.\\nBusiness Continuity \u0026 Resilience: Architect robust system automation, auto-healing mechanisms, chaos testing, and CI/CD pipelines to guarantee business continuity and rapid disaster recovery.\\nAI Enablement \u0026 Developer Velocity: Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and modern software engineering practices across the team to accelerate development velocity, elevate code quality, and solve multi-domain technical challenges.\\nData Architecture: Design and optimize large-scale distributed NoSQL, relational, and in-memory data architectures for real-time risk evaluation, pattern matching, and high-frequency aggregate state lookup.\\nObservability Strategy: Define and implement enterprise-grade observability, telemetry, and alerting strategies to proactively identify performance degradation, data quality issues, and security threats.\\nMentorship \u0026 Collaboration: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, while partnering with cross-functional security researchers, data scientists, and senior leadership across Apple to drive long-term technical strategy.
Minimum 3 years of software development experience.\\nBachelor"s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.\\nMastery of Core Java, OOP, multithreading, collections, and exception handling.\\nExperience with Hibernate or JPA for object-relational mapping.\\nProficient in building RESTful web services and APIs.\\nExpertise in JVM tuning, profiling, and optimizing Java applications.\\nFamiliar with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.\\nGood understanding of IP networking, BGP, NAT, and TCP/IP.
Good understanding of HTTP/HTTPS proxies.\\nExperience building control plane systems, Kubernetes APIs, and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).\\nInnovative, thinks outside the box, and has a strong drive for excellence.\\nGood verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
