Apple
Senior Security Engineer - Strategic Risk
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 7 or more years; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Leads security engagement for major engineering efforts, improving protections for Apple services, customer accounts, and data through reviews, risk management, and security controls.
What you'll do
- Conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and post-incident investigations; develop scalable methodologies from findings.
- Identify and communicate security risks, define security goals, and partner with engineering teams on improvements.
- Develop and implement AI technologies to manage risk; research emerging threats and define security requirements and controls.
What they ask for
- 7 or more years conducting security reviews, incident response, threat modeling, or security engineering.
- Ability to design, document, and implement security processes.
- Understanding of cloud-native architecture and managed platform services.
- Expertise in threat modeling, operational threat intelligence, common attack vectors and frameworks; understanding of applied cryptography, access control, and modern authentication; experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms.
Nice to have
- Experience with threat hunting, insider risk, or investigations.
- Experience working with data engineers on metrics and detection/risk models; experience applying and experimenting with AI/ML for security use cases.
Pay
USD $175,000 to USD $308,500 base salary
Tools
Splunk, OSQuery
AI focus
Develop and implement AI technologies to manage risk; applying and experimenting with AI/ML for security-related use cases is preferred.
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