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Senior Security Engineer - Strategic Risk

Apple· Software and Services
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Seattle, WA$175k - $308.5kfull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Senior security engineering role within Apple Services Engineering Security. Primary security contact for large engineering initiatives, delivering security reviews, threat modeling, incident investigations, and scalable security improvements focused on customer accounts and data in Apple’s infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Identify areas for improvement related to user account security and establish appropriate security goals
  • Lead discovery conversations to understand architecture, current security posture, and blockers to adoption
  • Measure and communicate risks to leaders and stakeholders
  • Develop and implement AI technologies to manage risk
  • Perform post-incident reviews and investigations
  • Research and identify emerging technologies, threats, and vulnerabilities to proactively define security requirements and controls before they reach production
  • Partner with teams to improve the security of their services and systems

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)
  • 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

Skills

Required:Security reviewsThreat modelingIncident response
Nice to have:AI/ML for security

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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