Apple
Senior Security Engineer
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 10 or more years in the specified security activities.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience preferred.
About the job
Leads security reviews and threat modeling for Apple services and backend infrastructure, partnering with engineering teams to improve security throughout development.
What you'll do
- Conduct security reviews and threat models, communicate risks, and develop scalable security methodologies.
- Define, automate, and advocate for platform-wide security improvements and security workflows.
- Guide engineering partners on secure designs and risk decisions across internet-facing services and backend infrastructure.
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 security implications for cloud-scale platform services.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture and managed platform services; experience with multi-tenant system design and securing multi-tenant SaaS and PaaS 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); experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (base salary range; USD)
Tools
Python, Java, Go, Swift, Kubernetes
AI focus
Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is a plus; specific AI work is not described.
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