Apple's SPEAR team is looking to improve the security of end-user devices by hardening all of Apple's operating systems. This involves hands-on work deploying security improvements, ranging from memory safety technologies to wholesale refactors of key system components, to build security into the core and ensure the safety of every user's digital life against malicious adversaries.
Requirements
- Experience leading a software team developing operating system services, native SDKs, or native applications
- Hands-on experience with software development in a system language such as Swift, Rust, Objective-C, or C++
- Deep understanding of software security principles, with a focus on memory safety and mitigations against binary exploitation
- Understanding of system-level concepts including multi-threaded design, synchronization, and interprocess communication
- Experience building a strong and diverse team, promoting healthy team culture, driving process improvements, and supporting career growth of team members
- Proven track record of owning and leading successful delivery of software projects
Responsibilities
- Manage ambitious software security projects through their entire lifecycle, including concept, design, implementation, testing, and integration.
- Provide technical oversight of the team’s projects to ensure they are delivering significant and durable improvements to the security and quality of Apple’s operating system software.
- Lead and manage a team of collaborative software engineers improving the security of critical operating system software.
- Grow the team by hiring and developing top engineering talent at all experience levels.
- Partner with other security engineering leaders to develop your team’s roadmap and respond to emerging threats.
- Drive continuous improvement within the team, analyzing every project for improvement opportunities and following through to ensure they are implemented.
Other
- Foster a collaborative team culture, leading by example to approach every challenge as an opportunity to deepen mutual understanding and respect through creative problem solving.
- Enthusiastic, empathetic, and collaborative approach to multi-functional projects
- Bachelors or Masters in related field
- Base pay range for this role is between $228,100 and $342,800
- Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs.
