Security Engineer

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

As part of our efforts to protect our users, Apple is looking for a world-class security engineer to join a team of threat intelligence analysts and security engineers. This team works together and cross-functionally to drive efforts to solve security engineering challenges, with an emphasis on supporting decisions that provide the greatest long-term security. The success we are striving for is the result of very skilled people working in an environment that cultivates creativity, partnership, and solving old problems in new ways.

Protecting over a billion endpoints. Operationalizing security research and threat intelligence into security engineering decisions affecting every layer of the stack. Touching the lives of everyone who interacts with our products. Working for a company whose commitment to user privacy is at the heart of everything it does. Being surrounded by the most creative, passionate, hardworking engineers in the industry. Constantly being challenged to go beyond the norm to find new, innovative ways of solving problems and to make software safer, easier, and more fun to use.

You can find all of this in one opportunity, and only at Apple.

• Analyze and understand advanced cyber actors, capabilities, and techniques.
• Design and implement innovative approaches to endpoint protection, malware detection & mitigation, auditing, and fleet management to help protect our customers.
• Develop new and innovative ways of increasing security, manageability, and transparency while preserving privacy and ease-of-use.
• Work in coordination with other parts of Apple on multi-functional technologies and initiatives to enhance security.
• Promote and drive the adoption of these technologies across the organization.
• Working cross-functionally with other software, hardware, marketing, and support teams to provide the best security solutions for Apple’s products.

• Understanding of the threat intelligence cycle and cyber operations.
• Solid understanding of both endpoint and server detection engineering.
• Experience with and knowledge of OS security and practical uses of endpoint security telemetry to detect malware
• Ability to apply research to security outcomes

• Experience in analyzing highly-complex threat actor campaigns, including infrastructure, malware, and victim endpoints.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language
• A genuine passion for crafting effective and pragmatic security technologies in challenging environments
• Able to discuss risk assessments with audiences of various technical & business backgrounds
• Excellent partnership skills:
  We work with all engineering teams involved in Apple products, and on all of their code
• Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules
• Ability to quickly learn new skills and technologies

At Apple, we're not all the same. And that's our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced, and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. We will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations.

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