Security Site Reliability Engineer

Apple Inc

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On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
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$175,000–$308,500 / yr
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2 days ago
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Security Site Reliability Engineer

JOB TITLE: Security Site Reliability Engineer - Apple Service Engineering The Security Site Reliability Engineer - Apple Service Engineering joins the Apple Service Engineering team to support foundational security services including host access, disk encryption, identity, and authentication. This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures, incident response protocols, and automation tools to ensure the reliability and scalability of systems protecting critical data. You will define and drive adoption for minimum security requirements, mapping baselines to reasonable threats using battle-tested tools. The position requires proficiency in Python, Golang, Java, Rust, C#, or C++. Key technical requirements include deep knowledge of Linux security primitives, SELinux, container security, and operating system concepts like multi-threading and memory management. Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and SRE principles like monitoring and fault analysis is also required.

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and maintain security measures and incident response protocols for global services.
  • Build and mature foundational security services including host access, disk encryption, and identity authentication.
  • Develop and maintain automation tools to enhance the organization's overall security posture.
  • Define and drive adoption for a common set of minimum security requirements across the infrastructure.
  • Map security baselines to reasonable threats and implement mitigations using battle-tested tools.
  • Manage large-scale, highly available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems for 24/7 support.
  • Monitor and analyze system performance, networking, storage, and container security.
  • Iterate on security standards based on engineering team challenges and adoption of new practices.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
  • Advanced Degree (preferred).
  • 10+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering infrastructure focused role.
  • Significant and demonstrable experience in at least one of the following: Python, Golang, Java, Rust, C# or C++.
  • Deep knowledge of Linux security primitives, systems, packaging, container security and SELinux.
  • Strong understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance and scale.
  • Experience running Tier 1 services for 24/7 support.
  • Experience with large scale, highly available, distributed, and fault tolerant systems (preferred); Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization (preferred).

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