Senior Security Engineering Manager

Apple • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security team is looking for an experienced
manager to manage a team of security engineers focused on driving security
maturity for all of ASE. As a Senior Security Engineering Manager, you will
collaborate with developers, site reliability engineers, and security teams to
protect ASE services and design a secure foundation for services at Apple. Your
role would be to build and lead a team of security engineers, set strategy, and
lead execution, ensuring our products and services are hardened against
attackers. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our security posture, and
ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and
data. This role is both strategic and hands-on, requiring deep technical
expertise, strong leadership, and a proven track record of managing and growing
high-performing security teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in security engineering, with 6+ years in a leadership role managing security teams.
• Experience with engineering security solutions, driving security architecture and maintaining long term partnerships with engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of security protocols, cloud security (AWS, Azure, or GCP), identity & access management, encryption, and container security.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, secure coding practices, and common security tools (e.g., Snyk, Burp Suite, Nessus, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex security concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Engineering with emphasis in security related fields (or equivalent experience)
• Certs like CISSP, OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, etc. are helpful but not vital.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of security engineers. Set goals, conduct performance reviews, and support professional development.
• Security Architecture: Drive the design and implementation of secure systems architecture across cloud, infrastructure, and application environments.
• Threat Modeling & Security Discovery: Lead efforts in proactive threat assessments and security issue analysis at ASE scale
• Security Partner: Engineer solutions and processes to allow engineering teams to remediate security issues and integrate security controls
• Hardening & Guardrails: Develop known-good configurations for operating system images and commonly used applications as well as engineer security sandboxes and default-safe security wrappers
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a trusted security advisor to engineering, product, and leadership teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees