Apple

Security Adoption Engineer

Apple$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in systems administration, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or similar role
  • Proficient in Linux/Unix, shell scripting (bash), and infrastructure tooling
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience managing multiple independent workstreams simultaneously
  • Background in customer-facing technical roles like technical account management or solutions engineering
  • Proven ability to identify and address root causes of friction
  • Familiarity with security concepts related to software infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Bridge communication between security products and engineering teams
  • Conduct initial discovery calls and devise deployment plans
  • Follow up on blockers to ensure smooth progress
  • Systematically identify and prioritize engineering teams for engagement
  • Translate field learnings into improved security tooling and processes
  • Collaborate with product engineering to enhance documentation and onboarding
  • Shape a repeatable motion for security product adoption across Apple

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Retirement savings plan with company match
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Employee discounts on Apple products and services
  • Access to wellness programs and resources
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
Full Job Description
Security Adoption Engineer Apple's security product adoption team partners with engineering teams across the company to help them move from awareness to active use of Apple's internal security tooling. We're looking for a Security Adoption Engineer who operates at scale: someone who can guide hundreds of engineering teams toward adoption while simultaneously working with our product engineering teams to make the experience better for every team that comes after. This is a role where your instinct to eliminate friction is as important as your technical fluency. You'll be the bridge between Apple's security products and the hundreds of internal engineering teams who need them. Your days will look less like deep debugging sessions and more like running a high-velocity portfolio of lightweight engagements simultaneously: an initial discovery call with one team, a clear deployment plan for another, a follow-up on blockers with a third. The teams you work with are busy. They need someone who shows up prepared, asks the right questions, cuts through ambiguity, and leaves every meeting with a crisp set of next steps they actually want to follow through on. You'll own that experience end-to-end: identifying which teams to prioritize, understanding their stack and constraints, and packaging what they need to get unblocked. The engagements themselves are only half the job. The other half is using what you learn in the field to make adoption easier for every team that comes next. Every friction point you encounter is a signal. You'll work closely with our product engineering teams to translate that signal into better tooling, clearer documentation, and smoother onboarding flows, with a long-term goal of making the adoption path so well-paved that teams can largely find their own way. The best outcome for this role is one where your direct involvement becomes less necessary over time because the product got better. On the technical side, you're fluent enough in server-side systems and DevOps practices to earn credibility in the room. You understand how services are deployed and operated, you're comfortable reading and writing a bash script, and you know what words like "rollout," "config management," and "on-call" mean from experience, not just in theory. That said, your primary job isn't to write the integration code; it's to make sure the right people understand what they need to do and feel confident doing it. This role sits on a team with a broader mission: building a scalable, repeatable motion for security product adoption across Apple. You'll help shape what that motion looks like as we grow it. Experience in a systems administration, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or production services role. You know what it looks like to keep services running at scale. Practical familiarity with server-side environments: Linux/Unix, shell scripting (bash), infrastructure tooling (e.g., configuration management, deployment pipelines), and version control (Git). Strong written and verbal communication skills. You can run a meeting, write a clear summary, and produce a plan. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams independently without losing track of details or next steps. Background in a customer-facing technical role such as technical account management or solutions engineering, where you were responsible for a team's success, not just their implementation. Experience working across many teams simultaneously in a consulting, enablement, or platform team capacity. A track record of identifying the root cause behind repeated friction and advocating for structural fixes rather than one-off workarounds. Familiarity with security concepts relevant to software infrastructure: access control, credential management, secrets handling, or similar. Exposure to how large organizations roll out internal tooling at scale, what works, what gets stuck, and why. Strong instinct for identifying and communicating patterns across a portfolio rather than treating every engagement as a one-off.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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