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Software Engineering Manager

Apple· Software Engineering / Security Identity
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Seattle, WA$195.7k - $338.4kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers in the Apple Security Identity space, designing and delivering micro-services and capabilities that handle millions of API requests to vend identities for infrastructure and applications. Owns multi-year Identity strategy, OKRs, and interfaces with leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, goal setting, and career growth conversations
  • Participate in hiring, interviewing, and onboarding of new team members
  • Contribute to performance reviews and calibration, with guidance from your manager
  • Plan and track team work: break down roadmap goals, prioritize, estimate, and remove blockers to keep delivery on track
  • Partner with senior engineers on design and code reviews, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure
  • Support operational excellence for production services, including on-call health, incident response, and post-incident reviews
  • Work with customer teams to drive adoption of minimum security requirements, and track and report progress
  • Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to your manager, stakeholders, and partner teams
  • Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture with strong engineering practices
  • Stay technical enough to understand team designs and trade-offs, with limited hands-on coding as the team requires

Qualifications

  • 1+ years of experience leading people or teams, mentor, or project lead, with a strong interest in management as a career
  • 7+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment
  • Experience writing production code in Golang or Swift
  • Experience building and operating highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems
  • Solid understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization
  • Working knowledge of securing APIs, including input validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms for RESTful and gRPC APIs
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Prior experience managing engineers, including hiring and performance feedback
  • Knowledge of policy-based authorization mechanisms and engines, including Open Policy Agent/Rego or Zanzibar
  • Knowledge of authentication mechanisms, including OAuth, JWT, and other identity management protocols
  • Familiarity with incident response processes and the ability to respond to security incidents effectively
  • Knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for securing data, including TLS/SSL, digital signatures, hashing, and encryption
  • Hands-on experience with systems-level work, including configuring and troubleshooting system initialization processes

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementSoftware engineering

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation assistance
  • employee stock programs (discretionary RSUs, discounted stock through ESPP)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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