Apple

Senior Security Software Engineer, Software Supply Chain Security

Apple$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of security software engineering experience with end-to-end system ownership
  • Deep proficiency in Go and strong proficiency in Java with dependency management expertise
  • Experience with SBOM standards, SCA tooling, and vulnerability data sources
  • Proven track record of technical leadership and effective communication skills
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud/container infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and understanding of AI-specific risks

Responsibilities

  • Own technical depth in software composition analysis and vulnerability intelligence
  • Work across various tools and codebases addressing supply chain risk
  • Correlate software contents with emerging vulnerabilities and end-of-life risks
  • Define secure software development in light of AI-driven code generation
  • Transform raw vulnerability data into actionable insights
  • Drive architecture decisions and set technical direction for teams
  • Mentor engineers and communicate technical tradeoffs effectively

Benefits

  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools
  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement
  • Engagement with a highly skilled and diverse team
  • Flexible work environment with a strong emphasis on collaboration
  • Health, wellness, and retirement benefits
Full Job Description
This role owns technical depth across software composition analysis, vulnerability intelligence, and the automation that keeps both operating reliably at Apple's scale. You'll work across a diverse set of tools and codebases, and you'll be one of the people other engineers and adjacent security teams turn to when supply chain risk questions get hard, from how we track what's in our software, to how we correlate that against emerging vulnerabilities and end-of-life risk, to how we make that information actionable rather than just available.

You will confront a new class of problem, as AI coding assistants and agents generate a growing share of Apple's code and a growing share of its dependency choices you'll help define what secure software development means when dependencies increasingly get pulled in with minimal human review.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of experience in security software engineering, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a system or platform, and hands-on experience in the software supply chain security, dependency management and OSS risk

Deep proficiency in Go and strong proficiency in Java, including both languages' dependency ecosystems (Go Modules, Maven/Gradle), plus solid software engineering fundamentals

Experience with SBOM standards, software composition analysis (SCA) tooling and vulnerability data sources (e.g., NVD, OSV, GitHub Advisories), turning raw feeds into prioritized signal

Track record of technical leadership - driving architecture decisions, setting technical direction for a team or platform, mentoring other engineers, and communicating technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and security leadership

Experience with software delivery pipelines (CI/CD, build systems, release engineering) and cloud/container infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS or equivalent)

Practical, hands-on experience with AI coding assistants or agentic development tools, and an understanding of emerging AI-specific supply chain risks

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with specific SBOM formats and tooling (CycloneDX, SPDX, cdxgen, syft) and the Package URL (purl) standard

Knowledge of Open Container Initiative (OCI) image concepts

Experience with SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts) and build/artifact attestations

Experience with graph-based data modeling for dependency or risk relationships

Experience designing or operating automated dependency curation or allow-listing systems that can keep pace with AI-accelerated development

Familiarity with spec-driven development workflows and how they change the security review surface

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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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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