Security Server Application Engineer, Enterprise Technology Services
Sunnyvale, CAFull-timeSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
Apple’s JMET team develops server-side security solutions supporting hardware root of trust, provisioning and certification, secure software updates, and secure repair. The Security Server Application Engineer will join a new project team to build security systems, provide operational support, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and travel occasionally when needed. The ideal candidate is a strong programmer with experience in mission-critical security systems.
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Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200692298-3956
Summary
Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.
Join us at the heart of Apple’s security ecosystem! JMET develops custom server side security solutions which enable Apple to meet the security and privacy objectives for all products. Our services are responsible for establishing hardware root of trust, System and Module provisioning and certification, Secure Software Update, and Secure Repair initiatives to name a few. Every product that we manufacture, minus soft goods, interacts with one or more JMET services during its lifecycle.
Description
We are looking for a proficient Security Server Application Engineer to join a new project team and work on our next exciting initiative. The ideal candidate is a strong programmer with demonstrated track records working on mission-critical security systems. This role involves a blend of technical acumen and collaborative skills, as you’ll work with a diverse set of cross functional teams. This role also requires the candidate to provide operational support and occasional travel when need arises.
Minimum Qualifications
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4+ years of relevant industry experience shipping critical deliverables
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Proficiency in Java and Swift or other object-oriented languages and accompanying frameworks
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Solid understanding in cryptographic primitives, such as PKI, ASN1, x.509, authentication protocols, key exchange protocols, and PQC algorithms
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Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
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Proven track records in designing, leading and shipping mission-critical security service in Java or Swift that runs at a global scale
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Proven track records in leading large cross-functional teams in mission-critical initiatives
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Proven track records in designing, implementing, and supporting large scale security systems that are in production today
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Proven track records in presenting to senior leadership and executives, ability to read the room and represent project team appropriately
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,039 open Security Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$187–270K/yr157 salary ranges
- US median$48–53/hr20 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 189 open Security Engineering jobs in California and 1,039 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Security Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 821 postings).
- Education
- 178 of the 1,039 open Security Engineering jobs (17%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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