Apple
Senior Security Engineering Manager - Agentic Detection & Threat Hunting
$196K–$338K
Austin, Texas +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 10+ years managing engineering teams; 8+ years building and shipping production software or data systems.
About the job
Leads the team building Apple’s fleet-scale security detection and response platform, applying agentic AI to detection, triage, response, and threat hunting.
What you'll do
- Manage and technically guide experienced engineers building the detection and response platform.
- Partner with the on-host agent team and other security organizations on delivery, platform dependencies, and operations.
- Apply production GenAI workflows to security detection, response, and threat hunting.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
- 8+ years of professional experience building and shipping production software or data systems.
- Production deployment experience with standalone GenAI or agentic workflows in security or a closely related operations domain.
- Deep security detection and response experience, plus experience with large-scale security data and detection platforms.
Nice to have
- Experience leading threat hunting or detection engineering teams; threat hunting experience is a strong plus.
- Experience with Spark, Databricks or similar large-scale data processing platforms, and streaming alert pipelines.
Pay
$195,700 and $338,400 (base salary)
Tools
Spark, Databricks
AI focus
Deploys agentic AI and GenAI workflows for detection, triage, response, and threat hunting.
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