Senior Security Engineer, Red Team

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted
51 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k
This role $242k
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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $151,500–$213,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $242k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Apple Inc

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

Apple Inc currently has 1984 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Security Engineer, Red Team

As a Senior Security Engineer - Red Team, you will join the Apple Services Engineering Security Red Team to perform deep technical security reviews of critical services and infrastructure. You will be responsible for scoping, planning, and executing reviews to identify obscure risks, complex business logic vulnerabilities, and meaningful security improvement opportunities. Collaborating with engineering, InfoSec, privacy, SRE, and detection teams, you will validate detection mechanisms and develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations and workflows. The role requires expertise in infrastructure, cloud, and application security to protect internet-scale applications. You will utilize skills in manual source code review, threat scenario construction, and exploit chain building to improve security posture. Your work focuses on identifying risks within complex architectures and developing repeatable testing frameworks for large-scale systems.

What does a Security Engineer earn?

Median $185250 from 84 postings across 39 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Scope and lead deep security reviews of critical internet-scale applications and infrastructure.
  • Identify obscure, complex risks and business logic vulnerabilities within large systems.
  • Develop proof-of-concept systems to automate vulnerability discovery and security workflows.
  • Design and validate detection mechanisms to improve the overall security posture.
  • Create repeatable testing frameworks and metrics-driven improvements for security controls.
  • Communicate technical risks and actionable recommendations to engineering and leadership teams.
  • Perform manual source code reviews to identify potential vulnerabilities.
  • Construct threat scenario narratives and build exploit chains to test system defenses.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience in information security or software engineering, with at least 2 years conducting security reviews.
  • 2+ years of experience manually reviewing source code to find vulnerabilities.
  • Extensive experience in infrastructure, cloud, and application security.
  • Ability to communicate risk effectively to both engineering teams and leadership.
  • Ability to reason about the security of large, complex applications or infrastructures.
  • Experience constructing threat scenario narratives and building exploit chains (preferred).
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a security focus (preferred).
  • Community contributions such as public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, or talks (preferred).

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