Apple
Senior Security Software Engineer EDR
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional experience building, shipping and supporting production software or system software.
About the job
Build and operate Apple’s Swift-based endpoint detection and response agent to collect security telemetry, detect threats, and take response actions across a large fleet.
What you'll do
- Develop and expand EDR agent capabilities for Linux and Apple operating systems.
- Build reliable production software for internal servers and some public-facing products.
- Turn high-stakes, loosely defined problems into software in collaboration with other teams.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in at least one high-level or scripting language (Python or Rust) and one low-level systems language (C or C++).
- Solid knowledge of operating system internals, including processes, threads, memory, system calls, and namespaces.
- Credible understanding of attacker behavior, security concepts, and malicious activity in host telemetry.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale endpoint, host, or agent software; OS-level instrumentation such as eBPF or EndpointSecurity; or Swift on server.
- Experience with detection logic, anomaly detection, virtualization, or CI/CD and staged rollout tooling.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 USD base salary
Tools
Swift, Linux, Python, Rust, C, C++, eBPF, EndpointSecurity
AI focus
The agent supports Private Cloud Compute, which runs the larger models behind Apple Intelligence; the role’s stated work is on the EDR agent.
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