Senior Security Engineer - Strategic Risk

The Apple Services Engineering Security team is responsible for building and providing secure systems and infrastructure that support Apple services. In this role, you will serve as the primary security point of contact for major engineering efforts, helping teams evaluate risk, run security reviews, and translate findings into security improvements that scale across the platform.

This is an onsite position in Seattle, WA with an annual salary range of USD 175,000 - 308,500. The role requires 7+ years of security experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary security team point of contact for several large engineering efforts.
• Partner with engineering teams across the development lifecycle.
• Conduct security reviews and post-incident reviews, develop threat models, and use insights to build scalable security methodologies.
• Define, automate, and advocate for application-level and platform-wide security improvements, with a focus on risks to customer accounts and data.
• Take a hands-on approach to ensure programs are reviewed, adjusted, 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.
• Understanding of cloud-native architecture and managed platform services such as compute, storage, networking, and databases.
• Expertise in threat modeling, operational threat intelligence, and common attack vectors and frameworks.
• Knowledge of applied cryptography, access control, modern authentication frameworks, and other security mechanisms.
• Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms, such as Splunk and 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-related use cases.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• A range of discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition.
• Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs.
• Discretionary restricted stock unit awards (subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program).
• Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• May be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments, as well as relocation.

Technologies: Splunk, OSQuery