Senior Security Engineer (apple)
apple Seattle, United States
2024-10-27
Job posting number: #153349 (Ref:apl-200565955)
Job Description
Summary
Apple Services Engineering (ASE), the team behind iCloud services and the infrastructure that powers it, is looking for security engineers to partner with engineering teams working on new products and features. You will collaborate with developers, site reliability engineers, and security teams to protect ASE services and design a secure foundation for services at Apple. Your work will include full end-to-end security assurance activities including security architecture, threat modeling, some security testing, and risk management. You will be working with partner teams in security engineering, privacy, and offensive security to keep Apple's services secure for our users.
If you love diving into different complex technical systems, sharing security improvements, and staying organized enough to ride the uncertainty to security victory, we want to talk to you!
If you love diving into different complex technical systems, sharing security improvements, and staying organized enough to ride the uncertainty to security victory, we want to talk to you!
Description
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 and develop threat models and use the insights from these engagements to build standard methodologies. You will help define, automate and advocate for platform-wide security improvements. You will partner with your colleagues to raise the security bar for all engineering teams at Apple.
You will be:
A technical specialist responsible for the security of Apple's internet-facing services and backend infrastructure; Innately curious, listening for nuances and digging into details to understand systems and their weaknesses
Able to identify areas that are ripe for improvement and establishes appropriate security goals; Experienced and comfortable establishing relationships with teams to drive security improvements
Current on new security technologies, vulnerabilities, and methodologies; An excellent verbal and written communicator
Able to develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows
Able to use data to drive security review efficiency and prioritize high-value security team engagement
Responsible for security decisions impacting millions of users.
You will be:
A technical specialist responsible for the security of Apple's internet-facing services and backend infrastructure; Innately curious, listening for nuances and digging into details to understand systems and their weaknesses
Able to identify areas that are ripe for improvement and establishes appropriate security goals; Experienced and comfortable establishing relationships with teams to drive security improvements
Current on new security technologies, vulnerabilities, and methodologies; An excellent verbal and written communicator
Able to develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows
Able to use data to drive security review efficiency and prioritize high-value security team engagement
Responsible for security decisions impacting millions of users.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 or more years conducting security reviews, threat modeling, tracking findings, and communicating risk to engineering and leadership
- Knowledgeable about distributed systems’ design patterns and security implicationsJOB IS FROM: italents.netVIEW
- Experience with common infrastructure components including: network architecture, server fleet provisioning and configuration, OOB management, storage, load balancing, virtualization, Kubernetes
- Conversant in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, Go, or Ruby
- Experience with security standard processes of third party cloud environments
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Bonus points for community contributions like public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, etc.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Engineering with emphasis in security related fields (or equivalent experience) Certs like OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, etc. useful but not vital.
