Sr. Engineering Program Manager, Scaled Assurance, Apple Services Engineering

Apple; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security team is seeking a Security Engineering Program Manager to help manage and scale the Security Assurance Scaling program. You will drive security standards across Apple’s infrastructure and application lifecycles, turning findings into reusable engineering practices.

You will partner with security engineers and senior leaders to prioritize capabilities, align roadmaps, and report program health using dashboards and data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Program Manager or Technical Program Manager.
• 2+ years of experience managing projects or programs in the field of security.
• BS in technical field or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Operationalize cross-functional security initiatives and programs requiring security domain and engineering knowledge.
• Manage dependencies, risks, and changes by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources.
• Create project plans delivering alignment across teams with clarity.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to distill requirements and anticipate roadblocks.
• Influence peers and stakeholders and build consensus in ambiguity.
• Develop and own communication plans for status, issues, and risks.
• Define and report on program health, success metrics, and progress.
• Leverage data to drive strategic decisions and prioritization at leadership level.

Skills

Security program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Project management

Executive communication

AI agent familiarity

Tableau dashboards

Education

BS in technical field or equivalent experience

Tools

Tableau

Job description

Summary

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple's long-held passion for combining art and technology! We enable Apple's apps and services, and we do it on an extensive scale, to hundreds of millions of customers in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. The ASE Security team is seeking an experienced Security Engineering Program Manager to help manage and scale our Security Assurance Scaling team. Within ASE you will workon automation, tooling, framework and programs to drive security assurance at scale. As our work is integral to the entire infrastructure stack, you will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of engineering teams across Apple. We cultivate strong relationships, build trust, and influence without direct authority. We communicate openly and clearly, collaborate enthusiastically, and value a diverse culture of healthy debate. Do these points resonate with you? If so, we want to talk!

Description

As an Engineering Program Manager within ASE, you will lead the programs that embeds security standards into Apple’s infrastructure and application engineering lifecycles. Working alongside security engineers, you will be turning engagement findings into reusable engineering standards. You will drive prioritization for critical security capabilities, align roadmaps across platform and engineering organizations, and ensure consistent adoption of baseline controls. You will help define, prioritize, and advocate for platform-wide security improvements, raising the security bar for all engineering teams at Apple.

Key Responsibilities

• Operationalize key cross-functional security initiatives and programs that require security domain, systems, and engineering-level knowledge.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly.
• Create project plans which deliver consistency, clarity, and build alignment across teams.
• Play a key part in shaping technical direction by collaborating closely with senior engineers to distill complex requirements, identify trade-offs, and anticipate roadblocks across the software development lifecycle.
• Help influence peers and stakeholders and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.
• Develop and own communication plans to effectively and proactively communicate program status, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
• Define and report on program health, success metrics, and active progress.
• Leverage data to drive strategic decisions and prioritization at the leadership level.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Program Manager or Technical Program Manager.
• 2+ years of experience managing projects or programs in the field of security.
• Project Management: Proficiency in managing complex projects, including defining scopes, setting timelines, and coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure timely and successful delivery.
• Execution at Scale: Proven ability to track large volumes of work items across many teams to completion, using metrics, clear ownership, and consistent follow-through.
• BS in technical field or equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Build Trust and Influence: Experience fostering collaboration and influencing stakeholders without direct authority to achieve program objectives.
• Communication Skills: Ability to convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive and senior leadership, with clarity, confidence, and alignment.
• Analytical Problem Solving: Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs, simplify complex operational challenges, and design sustainable workflows.
• Drive What Matters: Able to focus and simplify, balancing the details with goals, priorities, and trade-offs in mind.
• Agentic Familiarity: Hands-on experience with AI agents and agentic workflows.
• Data Visualization: Proficiency building dashboards and reports in Tableau to communicate program health, progress, and risk to technical and executive audiences.
• Experience working on security standards, security baselines or a security policy program.
• Familiarity with policy-as-code approaches (e.g., Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, Checkov).