Principal EDR Security Engineer — Scale & Reliability

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 309,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive employee benefits

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Principal Security Software Engineer to own the EDR agent across a very large fleet, ensuring reliability, performance, and safety on Linux, macOS, and Apple silicon.

You will collaborate with Security SREs and platform teams, drive incident post-mortems, and shape support models while advancing detection capabilities for Apple’s customers worldwide. This role offers a path to influence Apple’s security posture and requires deep systems knowledge and hands-on

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production software experience with ownership and impact.
• Strong Swift on server, C for eBPF and kernel code.
• Experience owning reliability and performance for critical systems.
• Experience leading incident response and post-mortems with blameless learning.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of the EDR agent at scale across a very large fleet.
• Collaborate with Security SRE and platform teams to ensure operational readiness.
• Lead design and implementation decisions to improve quality and performance.
• Drive post-mortems and a learning culture to prevent recurrence.

Skills

Swift on server

eBPF kernel

Incident response

Reliability culture

Python

Rust

C/C++

OS internals

Threat telemetry

Server Swift

Job description

Apple Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Principal Security Software Engineer to own the EDR agent across a very large fleet, ensuring reliability, performance, and safety on Linux, macOS, and Apple silicon.

You will collaborate with Security SREs and platform teams, drive incident post-mortems, and shape support models while advancing detection capabilities for Apple’s customers worldwide. This role offers a path to influence Apple’s security posture and requires deep systems knowledge and hands-on