CareerPlan

Senior Security Software Engineer, Datacenter Infrastructure Security

Austin, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-10-16 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, code, and secure a privileged, availability-critical service managing Apple's datacenter baseboard management controllers (BMCs) and fleet security.

Role type

Senior Security Software Engineer (Datacenter Infrastructure)

Builds

Secure out-of-band management platform for Apple's server fleet

Domain

Datacenter infrastructure security, hardware trust, and server management

Required skills

Go, Swift, Rust, authentication and authorization at scale, PKI, mTLS, X.509, fine-grained access control, security telemetry, SIEM integration, threat modeling, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, PostgreSQL, secrets management, distributed systems, firmware security, TPMs, hardware roots of trust

Preferred skills

IPMI, DMTF Redfish, OpenBMC, vendor BMCs (HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC), network segmentation, zero-trust access patterns, AI coding assistants

Technologies

Go, Swift, Rust, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, PostgreSQL, IPMI, DMTF Redfish, OpenBMC, TPM

Responsibilities

Write and review production code for the BMC management platform, design and implement authentication/authorization mechanisms, build security telemetry for detection pipelines, modernize fleet management standards, define secure out-of-band management requirements, mentor engineers and drive architecture decisions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC