Senior Security Engineer - Strategic Risk
Job Description
Drive security strategy and execution for major Apple Services engineering initiatives with an onsite role in Seattle.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary security point of contact for multiple large engineering efforts
- Partner with engineering teams across the full development lifecycle
- Perform security reviews and post-incident reviews, and translate findings into durable improvements
- Develop threat models and use engagement insights to create scalable security methodologies
- Define, automate, and advocate for application-level and platform-wide security improvements focused on risks to customer accounts and data
- Maintain a hands-on role to ensure security programs are reviewed, tuned, implemented, and tested appropriately
Requirements
- 7+ years conducting security reviews, incident response, threat modeling, or security engineering
- Proven ability to design, document, and implement new security processes
- Working understanding of cloud-native architecture and managed platform services (compute, storage, networking, databases)
- Expertise in threat modeling, operational threat intelligence, and common attack vectors and frameworks
- Understanding of applied cryptography, access control, modern authentication frameworks, and other security mechanisms
- Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk, OSQuery)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with threat hunting, insider risk, and/or investigations
- Experience working with data engineers to define metrics and interpret results from detection and risk models
- Experience applying and experimenting with AI/ML to address security use cases
Technologies
- Splunk
- OSQuery
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Discounted products and free services
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs
- Discretionary restricted stock unit awards, subject to eligibility requirements and plan or program terms
- Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in the Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- May be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments, and relocation (role dependent)
Job Details
- Location: Seattle, WA (onsite)
- Salary: USD 175,000 - 308,500 per year
- Experience: 7+ years