Vulnerability Response Engineer: Security Automation & Remediation

Apple; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple seeks an exceptional Information Security Engineer to support its vulnerability response program. This hands-on role covers discovery, analysis, and remediation of vulnerabilities across Apple’s external perimeter, working with owners and external researchers to drive risk decisions and ship changes.

You will collaborate with global teams across time zones, report findings clearly, and contribute to tooling and processes that scale fast-minded security operations in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with common security vulnerabilities and the ability to judge their severity and impact to the business.
• Strong web application penetration testing skills and security research, including logic flaws and access control weaknesses.
• Excellent knowledge of large‑scale security solutions and vulnerability scanning tools, both commercial and open source.
• Software development experience with Python, Go, Rust, and/or Bash scripting to build and maintain tooling.

Responsibilities

• Technically replicate reported vulnerabilities and scale variant analysis across Apple’s external perimeter to identify and remediate every related instance of an issue.
• Conduct security assessments and large‑scale scanning of external properties to discover vulnerabilities before they are reported or exploited.
• Author clear, authoritative responses to vulnerability inquiries, including direct communication with external security researchers.
• Triage automated alerting and emerging threats, including zero‑day assessment, and coordinate rapid mitigation with partner teams.
• Build and improve security tooling, automation, and detection capabilities to increase team efficiency and coverage, driving issues from discovery to closure.
• On‑call rotation, including weekends, as part of a tiered escalation model for continuous coverage.

Skills

Vulnerability assessment

Penetration testing

Security tooling

Scripting & automation

Tools

Python

Go

Rust

Bash

Job description

Apple seeks an exceptional Information Security Engineer to support its vulnerability response program. This hands-on role covers discovery, analysis, and remediation of vulnerabilities across Apple’s external perimeter, working with owners and external researchers to drive risk decisions and ship changes.

You will collaborate with global teams across time zones, report findings clearly, and contribute to tooling and processes that scale fast-minded security operations in a dynamic environment.