Engineering Manager, Shield

Apple • Sunnyvale, CA

8h

About The Position

At Apple, new insights often become revolutionary products, services, and
customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and
there's no telling what you could accomplish. The Emerging Technologies team
specializes in building forward-looking, extremely scalable platforms. The team
is passionate about 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.

The Emerging Technologies team is seeking a manager to lead the engineering team
responsible for the control plane powering proxy orchestration and security
controls. The candidate will work with a team of talented engineers to design
and implement proxy capabilities, orchestration, and security controls across
protocols such as TCP, UDP, and HTTP. In this role, you will lead the team
responsible for the control plane that powers Layer 4/Layer 7 proxies and their
associated security controls. This Java-based platform is a critical
infrastructure that enables secure configuration, management, and orchestration
of Apple's proxy ecosystem. The platform facilitates advanced network security
capabilities, including Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection against OWASP
threats, DDoS mitigation, Bot Prevention, and real-time threat intelligence
dissemination to safeguard Apple's services.

You will oversee the development
and evolution of this platform across a polyglot infrastructure spanning
on-premises data centers and public cloud environments, including GCP and AWS,
ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure orchestration for mission-critical
services across Apple.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with ~5 years managing and leading engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of proxy architectures, HTTP/HTTPS protocols, and security principles.
• Sound knowledge of TCP/IP, TLS & WAF
• Experience building and managing mission-critical platforms, configuration management systems, or control plane architectures
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization frameworks, security best practices, and secure software development lifecycle.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate crisply to different audiences, from engineering to the executive team
• Proven track record of delivering complex, scalable systems in production environments.

Nice To Haves

• Programming experience in multiple languages, including Java/J2EE, Python, Go, and scripting languages for automation.
• Experience in C, C++, and LUA to customize proxy engines like NGINX and Envoy
• Experience with public cloud platforms: GCP, AWS.
• Knowledge of micro-services and containerization technologies (e.g, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with distributed systems, high-availability architectures, and fault-tolerant design patterns.
• Understanding of database technologies (both SQL and NoSQL) and data modeling.
• Knowledge of observability tools and practices (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Proven ability to manage projects with on-time delivery and working experience in Agile development methodology.
• Innovative, thinks out of the box, and has a strong drive for excellence.
• M.S or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager