Apple
Senior System Security Software Engineer, Platform Attestation
$175K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of experience.
About the job
Own and develop the server platform’s attestation architecture and software to verify hardware and firmware integrity across Apple’s data center fleet.
What you'll do
- Define and extend the attestation chain for chassis and firmware-bearing components, including measurements and component identity verification.
- Develop on-node attestation software and partner on services that continuously verify results across the fleet.
- Review code and designs, document end-to-end security models, and assess systems software and services.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in C/C++.
- Background developing and maintaining security-critical codebases.
- Understanding of applied cryptography, cryptography hardware, key management, PKI, and HSM-backed certificate issuance.
- Experience with mutual authentication and hardware-based attestation, including Secure Boot, firmware measurement, and challenge-response protocols; strong understanding of hardware/software interactions and low-level software.
Nice to have
- Experience designing secure embedded systems and bringing hardware platforms from manufacturing into production.
- Experience with server component firmware, production fleet-security services, low-level security exploits, or Swift, Objective-C, and Apple development tools.
Pay
$175,000 to $263,300 USD base salary
Tools
C/C++, PKI, HSM, Secure Boot, ARM SoC, Swift, Objective-C
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