Senior Security Engineer - Strategic Risk
Summary
Senior security engineer on Apple's Services Engineering Security team, serving as the security point of contact for large engineering efforts — conducting security reviews, threat modeling, and post-incident reviews, then building and automating security controls to protect customer accounts and data. Core areas: cloud-native platforms, threat intelligence, cryptography, and log analysis (Splunk,
The Apple Services Engineering Security team builds and provides secure systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, App Store, and Maps). As part of the ASE Security team, you will help manage the security needs of Apple’s services around the world. You will build and integrate the security controls, guardrails, and frameworks that help protect our customers data in Apple’s infrastructure. Your work will help build solutions to a variety of outstanding security risks to Apple systems and data. Join us, and you’ll play a meaningful role in ensuring the highest standard of security for one of the most-watched companies in the world.
In this role, you will be the primary security team point of contact for several large engineering efforts. You will work with engineering teams throughout their development lifecycle. You will conduct security reviews, post incident reviews, develop threat models, and use the insights from these engagements to build scalable methodologies. You will help define, automate and advocate for application level and platform-wide security improvements with a focus on risks to customer accounts and data. You will play a hands on role in ensuring that programs are reviewed, adjusted, implemented and tested appropriately.
Minimum Qualifications
- 7 or more years 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 service (eg. compute, storage, networking, 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 (e.g., Splunk, OSQuery)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with threat hunting, insider risk and/or investigations
- Experience working with data engineers to define metrics and interpret results from detection and risk models
- Experience in applying and experimenting with AI/ML, to solve security related use-cases
