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Senior Security Engineer

Apple•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Apple Services Engineering (ASE), the team behind iCloud services and its supporting infrastructure, seeks a Senior Security Engineer to partner with engineering teams developing new products and features. The role collaborates with developers, site reliability engineers, and security teams to protect ASE services and design secure platforms and services at Apple. The Senior Security Engineer will serve as the primary security team contact for several large engineering efforts and work with engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle. The role leads early security implementation through threat modeling and security guidance, conducts security reviews, develops threat models, and uses findings to create scalable methodologies. It also helps define, automate, and advocate for platform-wide security improvements, partnering with security engineering, privacy, and offensive security colleagues to improve security across Apple. As a technical lead responsible for the security of Apple's internet-facing services and backend infrastructure, the engineer is expected to investigate complex systems and weaknesses, identify improvement opportunities, set security goals, build relationships that advance security, guide workable secure designs and informed risk decisions, and stay current on security technologies, vulnerabilities, and methodologies. The role may develop proof-of-concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows; use data to improve review efficiency and prioritize engagement; and make security decisions affecting millions of users.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years conducting security reviews, threat modeling, tracking findings, and communicating risk to engineering and leadership.
  • Knowledge of distributed systems design patterns and their security implications when developing cloud-scale platform services.
  • Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture and managed platform services, such as compute, storage, networking, and databases.
  • Experience designing multi-tenant systems and securing 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 in third-party cloud environments.
  • Ability to investigate complex technical systems and identify weaknesses and opportunities for security improvement.
  • Experience establishing relationships with engineering teams to drive security improvements.
  • Ability to guide secure designs and risk decisions, and communicate security risks.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.

Nice To Haves

  • Community contributions such as public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open-source tools, or blogs.
  • Experience securing container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and understanding their security implications in multi-tenant environments.
  • Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary security team point of contact for several large engineering efforts.
  • Partner with engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Lead early security implementation through threat modeling and security guidance.
  • Conduct security reviews, develop threat models, track findings, and communicate risk to engineering teams and leadership.
  • Use engagement insights to build scalable security methodologies.
  • Define, automate, and advocate for platform-wide security improvements.
  • Collaborate with security engineering, privacy, offensive security, developers, and site reliability engineers to protect services and improve security.
  • Identify areas for security improvement and establish appropriate security goals.
  • Guide partners toward workable secure designs and informed risk decisions.
  • Develop proof-of-concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows.
  • Use data to improve security review efficiency and prioritize high-value engagements.
  • Make security decisions affecting millions of users.

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