Senior Security Software Engineer

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Senior Security Software Engineer in USA

Apple
Full time
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USA
09/24/2026
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Cupertino, CA

Responsibilities

Design and develop cryptographic and secure transport software across Apple’s software stack.
Contribute to kernel, library, framework, and application-level security technologies.
Develop pragmatic security methods and technologies for mobile and distributed computing.
Balance ease of use, performance, and security when solving complex engineering problems.
Collaborate with security, software, hardware, cloud, marketing, and support teams.
Influence technical decisions across multiple internal and external organizations.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
Experience in systems or operating system development.
Strong understanding of transport security and standard protocols such as TLS.
Strong understanding of C, Objective-C, or Swift.
Industry knowledge of operating system security and applied cryptography.
Preferred: bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Preferred: experience with transparency technologies such as certificate transparency.
Excellent teamwork and communication skills.

Benefits

Opportunity to work on security technologies used across Apple products by hundreds of millions of users.
Work within Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture organization with substantial autonomy and cross-functional collaboration.

Apple

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