Senior Security Engineer Security Assurance Scaling

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) the team behind iCloud and Media services and the infrastructure that powers them is looking for a Senior Security Engineer 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 scaling assurance activities including security risk assessments threat modeling and development of security standards. You will work with partner teams in security engineering privacy and offensive security to keep Apples services secure for our users. If you love diving into complex technical systems sharing security improvements and making security better we want to talk with you!

In this role you will partner with infrastructure and application teams to identify areas where security standards and where security controls should be applied across the ASE organization. You will work with engineering teams throughout their development lifecycle conduct security reviews and develop threat models and using the insights from these engagements to build standard methodologies. As Apples security risk experts for these services you will help prioritize which security capabilities and controls need to be applied and partner with our security engineering team and other platform teams to get them enforced. You will help define prioritize and advocate for platform-wide security improvements raising the security bar for all engineering teams at a technical lead responsible for the security of Apples internet-facing services and backend infrastructure you will be:nnInnately curious listening for nuances and digging into details to understand systems and their weaknessesnAble to identify areas ripe for improvement and establish appropriate security goalsnExperienced and comfortable establishing relationships with teams to drive security improvementsnCurrent on new security technologies vulnerabilities and methodologiesnAble to identify opportunities for automated enforcement and partner with security and platform engineering teams to implement themnAble to use data to drive security review efficiency and prioritize high-value security team engagementnResponsible for security decisions impacting millions of users

8 or more years conducting security reviews threat modeling tracking findings and communicating risk to engineering and leadershipnHands-on experience in cloud security engineering with demonstrated expertise in securing at least one major cloud platform (AWS GCP or AliCloud) in production environmentsnExperience securing cloud-native applications and workloads including containerized environments (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE) serverless architectures (Lambda/Cloud Functions) and modern CI/CD pipelinesnExperience building evaluating or directing the use of AI/ML-based security tooling to scale secure design review capacity demonstrating the ability to recognize and act on automation opportunitiesnConversant in at least one programming language such as Python Java Go or Swift

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience preferrednExperience identifying and prioritizing security enforcement points within infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi) and CI/CD pipelines and partnering with platform/security engineering teams to embed controls that apply consistently across many teams rather than relying on manual one-off reviewsnFamiliarity with policy-as-code approaches (e.g. Open Policy Agent Sentinel Checkov) sufficient to define control requirements and evaluate proposed implementations for coverage and risk reduction even if not personally authoring the policy code

Required Experience:

Senior IC