Drimva

Apple

Platform and Frameworks Software Engineer, SEAR

$150K–$278K

Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Feb 19, 2025

Education
BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience/skills.

About the job

Develops and improves operating-system platform security through collaborative projects that harden applications, frameworks, libraries, and services.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement security hardening, mitigations, memory-safety adoption, sandboxing, and refactoring in existing or new codebases.
  • Add or update unit tests, collaborate with QA on functional testing, and document changes and architectural elements.
  • Work collaboratively with partner teams throughout projects and prepare training materials for ongoing maintenance.

What they ask for

  • Understanding of a system programming language such as C, C++, Swift, or Rust.
  • Understanding of system-level concepts, including multithreaded design, resource management, and application interaction with the operating system.
  • Ability to reason about software security or robustness, quickly learn new codebases, and implement software using object-oriented design principles.
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience/skills; clear technical communication skills.

Nice to have

  • Interest in using Swift to improve the security of operating-system libraries and services.
  • Experience optimizing the runtime performance of system libraries or compute-intensive software.

Pay

$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary)

Tools

Swift, Objective-C, C++, C, Rust

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