Senior Security Software Engineer, Software Supply Chain Security

Apple, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Sur place; USD 175 000 - 309 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Comprehensive medical and dental

Retirement benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Tuition reimbursement

Résumé du poste

Apple Inc. in Seattle, WA, is seeking a Senior Security Software Engineer to own risk modeling across software composition analysis, vulnerability data, and automation at scale. You will shape how inventory and signals are correlated, mentor engineers, and set the security bar for a large, modern platform.

You will work across diverse codebases and build systems, defining secure development practices as dependency choices evolve with AI coding assistants and agents.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security software engineering with end-to-end ownership.
• Strong Go and Java with their ecosystems.
• Experience with SBOM standards and SCA tooling.
• Ability to lead architectures and mentor engineers.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, cloud infra (Kubernetes/AWS).
• Hands-on with AI coding assistants and related risks.

Responsabilités

• Own technical depth across software composition analysis and vulnerability data.
• Model and correlate software inventory and risk signals.
• Drive architecture decisions and set technical direction for the team.
• Mentor engineers and communicate tradeoffs to security leadership.
• Collaborate across build systems, registries, and SBOM generation at scale.

Connaissances

Security engineering

Go

Java

SBOM standards

SCA tooling

Vulnerability data

Technical leadership

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AWS

AI coding tools

Outils

CycloneDX

SPDX

cdxgen

syft

OCI images

SLSA

Description du poste

Senior Security Software Engineer, Software Supply Chain Security

Seattle, Washington, United States Software and Services

We are the Dependency Risk & Automation Team in Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security. We're responsible for understanding what software Apple runs, where it came from, and how exposed it is, across the internal and open-source projects behind iCloud, Music, Siri, the App Store, and the rest of Apple's services. Composition and vulnerability signal reach us from build systems, package registries, vulnerability feeds, and SBOMs generated across a large, heterogeneous estate of projects and languages, and increasingly from dependency choices made by AI coding assistants and agents rather than the engineers who own the code. Turning that into one prioritized, trustworthy picture of risk that engineering teams can act on and security leadership can rely on takes real architectural judgment, not just tooling. We're looking for a senior engineer to take technical ownership of significant parts of this problem: shaping how software inventory and vulnerability data are modeled and correlated, setting the engineering quality bar the rest of the platform is held to, and mentoring engineers across the team and adjacent teams on how to reason about supply chain risk. You'll make the architectural calls that determine whether the rest of the company can trust and act on that data, and you'll play a meaningful role in ensuring the highest standard of security for one of the most-watched companies in the world.

Description

This role owns technical depth across software composition analysis, vulnerability intelligence, and the automation that keeps both operating reliably at Apple's scale. You'll work across a diverse set of tools and codebases, and you'll be one of the people other engineers and adjacent security teams turn to when supply chain risk questions get hard, from how we track what's in our software, to how we correlate that against emerging vulnerabilities and end-of-life risk, to how we make that information actionable rather than just available. You will confront a new class of problem, as AI coding assistants and agents generate a growing share of Apple's code and a growing share of its dependency choices you'll help define what secure software development means when dependencies increasingly get pulled in with minimal human review.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in security software engineering, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a system or platform, and hands-on experience in the software supply chain security, dependency management and OSS risk
• Deep proficiency in Go and strong proficiency in Java, including both languages' dependency ecosystems (Go Modules, Maven/Gradle), plus solid software engineering fundamentals
• Experience with SBOM standards, software composition analysis (SCA) tooling and vulnerability data sources (e.g., NVD, OSV, GitHub Advisories), turning raw feeds into prioritized signal
• Track record of technical leadership — driving architecture decisions, setting technical direction for a team or platform, mentoring other engineers, and communicating technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and security leadership
• Experience with software delivery pipelines (CI/CD, build systems, release engineering) and cloud/container infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS or equivalent)
• Practical, hands-on experience with AI coding assistants or agentic development tools, and an understanding of emerging AI-specific supply chain risks

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with specific SBOM formats and tooling (CycloneDX, SPDX, cdxgen, syft) and the Package URL (purl) standard
• Knowledge of Open Container Initiative (OCI) image concepts
• Experience with SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts) and build/artifact attestations
• Experience with graph-based data modeling for dependency or risk relationships
• Experience designing or operating automated dependency curation or allow-listing systems that can keep pace with AI-accelerated development
• Familiarity with spec-driven development workflows and how they change the security review surface

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, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.

Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

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