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Senior Offensive Security Engineer

Today Seattle, WA

We are the Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security Red Team. We focus on deep technical security review work of critical ASE services and infrastructure. These security reviews will be scoped and focused on review depth and quality. We are growing our team and looking a Senior Staff Security Engineer to lead deep reviews that identify meaningful security improvement opportunities. In this role, you will work closely with the security engineering, InfoSec, privacy, SRE, detection and design review teams to keep Apple's services secure for our users. You will identify security weaknesses, validate and design detection mechanisms, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance our security posture. You will go beyond simple to find risks and identify obscure and complex risks within complex services. You will collaborate with various architecture and engineering teams to continuously validate and improve our security controls and detection capabilities, with a strong focus on developing repeatable testing frameworks and metrics-driven security improvements. If you love diving into complex and important systems, and driving the security of that system over time, we want to talk to you!

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Description

In this role, you will scope and lead focused security reviews on critical internet scale applications and supporting infrastructure. You will learn the services architecture and risk profile to build a scope that enables a meaningful security review. You will be: A technical expert responsible for the enumerating risks, planning reviews, and executing those reviews to identify vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities; A technical expert in uncommon and obscure risks; A technical expert in complex business logic risks that require a depth of understanding of the services and their architectures; Able to identify areas that are ripe for improvement and establish appropriate security goals; Current on new security technologies, vulnerabilities, and methodologies; Able to develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Engineering or a related, with emphasis in security related fields (or equivalent experience)

Experience constructing narratives and building exploit chains

Ability to reason about and influence software architecture for security

Community contributions like public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, talks etc.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years in an information security field or software engineering; four or more of those years conducting security reviews

Extensive infrastructure, cloud and application security experience

Experience communicating risk to engineering and leadership teams

Ability to reason about security of a large and complex application or infrastructure

Experience going deep on complex systems for extended engagements

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .

Client-provided location(s): Seattle, WA
Job ID: apple-200600552-3337_rxr-658
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-11-10T19:05:24

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Parental Benefits

      • Work Flexibility

        • Office Life and Perks

          • Vacation and Time Off

            • Financial and Retirement

              • Professional Development

                • Diversity and Inclusion

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