About the role

What will you do at Apple?

Apple Services Engineering (ASE), the team behind iCloud services and the

infrastructure that powers it, 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 secure platforms and services at Apple. You will

lead your partners in implementing security early in the design phase through

threat modeling and security guidance. You will work with partner teams across

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 making security better, 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 scalable
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. As a technical lead responsible
for the security of Apple's internet-facing services and backend infrastructure,
you will be: 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; Demonstrate business acumen by guiding your partners to implement
workable secure designs and make informed risk decisions; Current on new
security technologies, vulnerabilities, and methodologies; 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
10 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 implications when
developing platform services at a cloud scale Deep understanding of cloud-native
architecture and managed platform service (eg. compute, storage, networking,
databases) Experience multi-tenant system design and secreting multi-tenant
software as a service and platform as a service offerings. Conversant in at
least one programming language such as Python, Java, Go, or Swift Experience
with security standard processes of third party cloud environments
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience preferred Bonus points for community
contributions like public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools,
blogs, etc. Experience with securing container orchestration systems (eg
Kubernetes) and the security implications in multi-tenant environments
Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is a plus

Which skills does this role require?

Security EngineeringThreat ModelingCloud-native ArchitectureDistributed SystemsMulti-tenant System DesignPythonJavaGoSwiftVulnerability DiscoveryRisk AssessmentSecurity AutomationPlatform SecurityInfrastructure SecuritySecurity ReviewsiCloudSite Reliability EngineeringCloud-nativeSaaSPaaSRisk ManagementInfrastructureAutomationProof of ConceptSecurity GuidanceOffensive SecurityPrivacyBackend InfrastructureCVE

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