Apple
Senior Security Software Engineer, Datacenter Infrastructure Security
Austin, Texas · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including end-to-end ownership of a production system or platform; 5+ years writing production Go code.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own and secure Apple’s platform for managing baseboard management controllers across its datacenter fleet, while modernizing secure out-of-band management.
What you'll do
- Design, write, review, and secure a privileged, availability-critical production service.
- Improve authentication, authorization, credential handling, and security telemetry for privileged activity.
- Lead platform modernization and help define secure access, firmware trust, and management-controller requirements.
What they ask for
- Deep proficiency in Go, including 5+ years writing production Go code.
- Experience building security telemetry for SIEM and detection pipelines.
- 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.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with server management technologies such as IPMI, DMTF Redfish, OpenBMC, or vendor BMCs.
- Experience with security flaw discovery, technical leadership, production AI coding assistants, or other listed preferred qualifications.
Tools
Go, Swift, Rust, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, IPMI, DMTF Redfish, OpenBMC
AI focus
Preferred: hands-on experience using AI coding assistants on a production codebase. The role may also define access for automated systems.
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