Senior Security Software Engineer EDR

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Senior Security Software Engineer EDR in USA

Apple
Full time
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USA
10/21/2026
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Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

Build and scale Apple’s endpoint detection and response agent for a large fleet.
Collect security telemetry, evaluate detections on hosts, and take response actions on hosts.
Develop production software for Linux and Apple operating systems running on Apple silicon.
Translate ambiguous, high-stakes security problems into working software in partnership with other engineering teams.
Build CI/CD and release tooling with staged rollout and rollback capabilities for host-deployed software.
Maintain high performance, availability, and reliability without taking production systems down.

Requirements

7+ years of professional experience building, shipping, and supporting production software or system software.
Proficiency in at least one high-level or scripting language, such as Python or Rust, and at least one low-level systems language, such as C or C++.
Solid knowledge of operating system internals, including processes, threads, memory, system calls, and namespaces, on Linux, macOS, or both.
Understanding of attacker behavior, security concepts, and how malicious activity appears in process, network, and file telemetry.
Preferred experience with endpoint, host, or agent software deployed at large scale with performance and availability objectives.
Preferred experience with eBPF, EndpointSecurity, or similar OS-level instrumentation and knowledge of how those mechanisms can be evaded or disabled.
Preferred experience with Swift on server, Swift concurrency, and cross-platform builds.
Preferred understanding of EDR or host-based detection techniques and current industry practices.
Preferred experience with policy-driven detection logic such as OPA/Rego and statistical techniques such as probabilistic data structures for bounded-memory anomaly detection.
Preferred experience with virtualization and hypervisor environments.

Apple

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