Senior Security Engineer, Strategic Risk

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted
10 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 · Senior Security Engineer, Strategic Risk

The Senior Security Engineer - Strategic Risk joins the Apple Services Engineering Security team to protect customer data within infrastructure supporting services like iCloud and the App Store. You will serve as a primary security point of contact for large engineering efforts, conducting security reviews, developing threat models, and performing post-incident investigations. Your daily work involves building scalable methodologies, automating application-level security improvements, and identifying emerging threats to define proactive controls. You will utilize expertise in cloud-native architecture, applied cryptography, access control, and modern authentication frameworks. Technical requirements include experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms like Splunk and OSQuery. Additionally, you will develop and implement AI technologies to manage risk and interpret results from detection models to improve overall system security.

What does a Security Engineer earn?

Median $193000 from 107 postings across 42 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Conduct security reviews and develop threat models throughout the engineering development lifecycle.
  • Identify areas for improvement in user account security and establish specific security goals.
  • Lead discovery conversations to understand architecture, current security posture, and adoption blockers.
  • Develop and implement AI technologies to manage and mitigate security risks.
  • Perform post-incident reviews and investigations to improve future security responses.
  • Research emerging technologies and threats to define security requirements before production.
  • Measure and communicate security risks to leadership and key stakeholders.
  • Automate and advocate for application-level and platform-wide security improvements.

What we're looking for

  • 7 or more years of experience conducting security reviews, incident response, threat modeling, or security engineering.
  • Demonstrated ability to design, document, and implement new security processes.
  • Understanding of cloud-native architecture and managed platform services including compute, storage, networking, and databases.
  • Expertise in threat modeling, operational threat intelligence, and common attack vectors and frameworks.
  • Understanding of applied cryptography, access control, modern authentication frameworks, and other security mechanisms.
  • Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms such as Splunk or OSQuery.
  • Experience with threat hunting, insider risk, and/or investigations (preferred).
  • Experience applying and experimenting with AI/ML to solve security-related use-cases (preferred).

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