Apple

Senior Security Engineer - Red Team

Apple$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in information security or software engineering; at least 2 years in security reviews
  • 2+ years of manual source code review experience
  • Strong capability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
  • Extensive experience in infrastructure, cloud, and application security
  • Proficient in communicating security risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to analyze security in large, complex systems
  • Experience performing in-depth assessments on intricate systems

Responsibilities

  • Lead comprehensive security reviews of critical internet scale applications
  • Identify security weaknesses and recommend actionable improvements
  • Develop and validate detection mechanisms for security threats
  • Collaborate with multiple teams including InfoSec and SRE for security enhancements
  • Create repeatable testing frameworks and metrics-driven improvement strategies
  • Scope out services architecture to focus security reviews effectively
  • Deep dive into complex systems to uncover obscure security risks

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with access to experienced security professionals
  • Opportunities to influence the security architecture of large-scale systems
  • Potential for professional development through involvement in security communities
  • Engagement with cutting-edge security technologies and methodologies
  • Chance to contribute to impactful security improvements at a major tech company
Full Job Description
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 an 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!

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.

Minimum Qualifications

4+ years in an information security field or software engineering; 2 or more of those years conducting security reviews

2+ years of manually reviewing source code to assist in finding vulnerabilities

Ability to adapt quickly to prioritization shifts and investigate unfamiliar technologies

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

Preferred Qualifications

8+ years in an information security field; 4 or more of those years conducting security reviews

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

Experience constructing threat scenario 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.

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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154,000 employees
Market Cap
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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