Secure Platform Architect — Systems & Web Services

Apple Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Diego is seeking a senior security architect to define the architecture and oversee distributed web services that enforce security policy for development, manufacture, deployment, and operation of Apple products.

You will drive continuous security improvements and collaborate with product and engineering teams to safeguard devices used by millions. You will help establish trust by addressing security across hardware, software, and services, while guiding architecture and

Qualifications

• BS in EE/CE/CS or related relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with secure boot and establishing hardware roots of trust; or experience designing, developing, and deploying secure web services and scalable infrastructure for highly available applications.
• Experience with common programming languages such as Python, Go or C/C++.
• Experience collaborating across multiple disciplines, such as software engineering, hardware, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams throughout the product development cycle to resolve system-level issues without sacrificing product security or impacting product design.
• Identify emerging threats, develop threat models, and define security architectures for new Apple products and technologies. Derive system security requirements, and design mitigations in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
• Develop detailed system-level specifications to guide product development, integration, and quality assurance teams in the creation of golden unit tests, reference data, and sample libraries to aid integration of security technologies across team boundaries.
• Drive security requirements and architecture into web application services that integrate with hardware roots of trust, impacting the development, manufacture, deployment, and operation of Apple products.
• Use a wide range of interpersonal and technical skills to champion adoption of industry-leading security technologies across multiple product categories.

Skills

Secure boot

Hardware roots of trust

Threat modeling

Python/Go/C/C++

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS in EE/CE/CS or related field

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Diego is seeking a senior security architect to define the architecture and oversee distributed web services that enforce security policy for development, manufacture, deployment, and operation of Apple products.

You will drive continuous security improvements and collaborate with product and engineering teams to safeguard devices used by millions. You will help establish trust by addressing security across hardware, software, and services, while guiding architecture and