Apple
Senior Security Engineer
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Experience
- 10 or more years in the specified security work.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience preferred.
About the job
Leads security for Apple Services Engineering’s internet-facing services and backend infrastructure, partnering with engineering teams on reviews, threat modeling, and scalable security improvements.
What you'll do
- Serve as the primary security contact for large engineering efforts throughout development.
- Conduct security reviews and threat modeling, communicate risks, and develop scalable security methodologies.
- Define, automate, and advocate for platform-wide security improvements, including proof-of-concept systems and data-informed prioritization.
What they ask for
- 10 or more 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 at cloud scale; deep understanding of cloud-native architecture and managed platform services.
- Experience with multi-tenant system design 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 of third-party cloud environments.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience preferred; community contributions such as public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, or blogs.
- Experience securing container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes) in multi-tenant environments; experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (base salary range)
Tools
Python, Java, Go, Swift, Kubernetes
AI focus
AI and Machine Learning experience is a plus; no specific AI work is described.
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