Senior Staff Security Engineer - Red Team
Apple
Full-time
On-site
Seattle, Washington, United States
Cyber Security Engineer
We are the Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security Red Team. We lead and execute complex Red Team engagements, simulating real-world attacker scenarios to uncover vulnerabilities across critical ASE services and infrastructure. We are growing our team and looking a Senior Staff Security Engineer to lead offensive security assessments that strengthen our defense capabilities.
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 detection mechanisms, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance our security posture. 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!
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 or exploit chains
Capable of identifying scope of engagement, planning reviews, and executing those reviews to identify vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities.
Able to identify areas that are ripe for improvement and establish appropriate security goals
Adept at building relationships with engineering and leadership 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
This position will involve some travel to other Apple sites.
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 clearly 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
Key Qualifications
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.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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