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User Secrets, Software Engineer, SEAR

Apple · Cupertino, United States of America

Spotted 116d ago

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Education
Master's degree
Posted
Mar 27, 2026
Last confirmed open
Oct 26, 2026

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About this role

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!

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!

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

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

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