Senior Security Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) in Seattle seeks a Senior Security Engineer to partner with engineering teams building iCloud services. You will lead security reviews, threat modeling, and design secure platforms and services, collaborating with developers, SREs, and security colleagues to keep Apple’s services safe.

As a technical lead, you’ll drive security early in the design phase, automate recommendations, and guide risk decisions for millions of users.

Qualifications

• 7+ years conducting security reviews and threat modeling with engineering leaders.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures and multi-tenant SaaS designs.
• Experience with secure design practices for distributed platform services.

Responsibilities

• Lead security reviews and threat modeling across major engineering efforts.
• Drive platform-wide security improvements and secure design guidance.
• Collaborate with security, privacy, and offensive security teams to elevate security posture.
• Automate security recommendations and prioritize high-value engagements.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Swift

Distributed systems design

Security reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Seattle, Washington, United States Software and Services

Apple Services Engineering (ASE), the team behind iCloud services and the infrastructure that powers it, is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to partner with engineering teams working on new products and features. You will collaborate with developers, site reliability engineers, and security teams to protect ASE services and design secure platforms and services at Apple. You will lead your partners in implementing security early in the design phase through threat modeling and security guidance. You will work with partner teams across security engineering, privacy, and offensive security to keep Apple's services secure for our users. If you love diving into different complex technical systems, sharing security improvements, and making security better, we want to talk to you.

Description

In this role, you will be the primary security team point of contact for several large engineering efforts. You will work with engineering teams throughout their development lifecycle. You will conduct security reviews and develop threat models and use the insights from these engagements to build scalable methodologies. You will help define, automate and advocate for platform-wide security improvements. You will partner with your colleagues to raise the security bar for all engineering teams at Apple. As a technical lead responsible for the security of Apple's internet-facing services and backend infrastructure, you will be: Innately curious, listening for nuances and digging into details to understand systems and their weaknesses; Able to identify areas that are ripe for improvement and establishes appropriate security goals; Experienced and comfortable establishing relationships with teams to drive security improvements; Demonstrate business acumen by guiding your partners to implement workable secure designs and make informed risk decisions; Current on new security technologies, vulnerabilities, and methodologies; Able to develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows; Able to use data to drive security review efficiency and prioritize high-value security team engagement; Responsible for security decisions impacting millions of users.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 or more years conducting security reviews, threat modeling, tracking findings, and communicating risk to engineering and leadership
• Knowledgeable about distributed systems design patterns and security implications when developing platform services at a cloud scale
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture and managed platform service (eg. compute, storage, networking, databases)
• Experience multi-tenant system design and secreting multi-tenant software as a service and platform as a service offerings.
• Conversant in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, Go, or Swift
• Experience with security standard processes of third party cloud environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience preferred
• Bonus points for community contributions like public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, etc.
• Experience with securing container orchestration systems (eg Kubernetes) and the security implications in multi-tenant environments
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is a plus

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,000 and $308,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

You’ll also receive benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• retirement benefits
• a range of discounted products and free services
• for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
• discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation

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