Senior Detection Creation Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$171,600–$302,200 / yr
Posted
57 days ago

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This role $237k
$150k most similar roles pay here $319k

This role pays more than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $169,500–$230,618 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $200k for comparable roles.

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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 · Senior Detection Creation Engineer

As a Senior Detection Creation Engineer on Apple Services Engineering’s Detection team, you will develop advanced security detections that protect Apple’s extensive systems and services. Your daily tasks include crafting detection logic in Scala Spark (Databricks) and configuring on-host detection frameworks like Falco rules to identify active malicious activity across diverse telemetry sources such as system call events, network logs, and Kubernetes audit logs. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams to understand their system architectures and create high-fidelity detections that are operationally sustainable. Additionally, you will optimize these detections based on real-world data, ensuring alerts are actionable and integrated into incident response workflows. This role requires a deep understanding of attacker behaviors and the ability to translate this knowledge into effective defensive measures using Scala Spark and other relevant technologies.

What you'll do

  • Develop security detections in Scala Spark (Databricks) to identify malicious activity.
  • Analyze attacker behaviors and translate them into observable patterns across telemetry data.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to develop high-fidelity, operationally sustainable detections.
  • Tune and optimize detection logic based on real-world alert data to reduce false positives.
  • Operationalize detections by integrating alerts into incident response workflows efficiently.
  • Document detection logic and rationale for knowledge sharing within the security organization.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years experience in security detection, threat hunting, incident response, penetration testing, or red teaming.
  • Strong understanding of real attacker behaviors, tactics, and techniques.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language with willingness to learn Scala.
  • Experience analyzing security telemetry data for malicious activity identification.
  • Hands-on experience writing detections using Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar frameworks.
  • Deep technical expertise in Linux system internals, network protocols, web application security, container/Kubernetes security, or cloud infrastructure.

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