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User Secrets, Software Engineer, SEAR

Apple, Inc.Cupertino, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 12 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Embedded within Apple's Security Engineering & Architecture organization, the User Secrets team mission is to ensure that a user's secret data stays accessible only to them, by using Apple's hardware and software to deliver world-class encrypted data storage, synchronization, and recovery options. Our team contributes to the most secure operating systems and cloud systems in the world, and puts end-to-end encryption in the hands of billions of customers - join us to help push our technologies to the next level!

Description

You will join a team that builds systems to securely store, sync, and recover a user's private data (including passwords, encryption keys, and other critical secrets) across all of Apple's products. As an engineer, you will advance the state of the art in server-based end-to-end encrypted data recovery, collaborating closely with our security partners, from the operating system and hardware for the Secure Enclave to the folks responsible for running iCloud servers at scale. You will contribute code and security expertise to some of the most critical sections of the End-to-End Encrypted data synchronization systems for iCloud. You will work towards our goal of ensuring that users' secrets stay their own, and data recovery is safe, reliable, and fast. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

Minimum Qualifications

A genuine passion for building effective, scalable, and useful tools for users to safeguard their most precious data

Exposure to and knowledge of OS security, applied cryptography, and key management

Knowledge of distributed consensus algorithms

Expertise in C

Preferred Qualifications

M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Experience developing for Trusted Execution Environments

Excellent collaboration and leadership skills

Ability to deliver proven work on tight schedules

Swift, Obj-C experience

Skills

Swift
Encryption
SAFe

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