Sr. Engineering Program Manager, Strategic Risk, Apple Services Engineering
Leads program delivery for Apple's Strategic Risk Security team within Services Engineering: turning technical security analysis into structured plans, coordinating discovery sessions, driving post-incident preventative controls, and managing proactive risk-mitigation roadmaps across Apple's infrastructure. Requires 4+ years as an EPM/TPM, including 2+ years in security.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Seattle
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 4+ years of experience as an Engineering Program Manager or Technical Program Manager
- 2+ years of experience managing projects or programs in the field of security
- Proficiency in managing complex projects: defining scopes, setting timelines, and coordinating cross-functional teams
- Proven ability to track large volumes of work items across many teams to completion using metrics, clear ownership, and follow-through
- BS in a technical field or equivalent industry experience
Nice to have
- Experience fostering collaboration and influencing stakeholders without direct authority
- Ability to convey complex technical information to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs, simplify complex operational challenges, and design sustainable workflows
- Able to focus and simplify, balancing details with goals, priorities, and trade-offs
- Familiarity with threat modeling, operational threat intelligence, and common attack vectors and frameworks
- Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk, OSQuery)
- Experience working with data engineers to define metrics and interpret results from detection and risk models
Full description
Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple's long-held passion for combining art and technology! We enable Apple's apps and services, and we do it on an extensive scale, to hundreds of millions of customers in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. The ASE Security team is seeking an experienced Security Engineering Program Manager to help manage and scale our Strategic Risk Security team. Within ASE you will manage the delivery of security controls, guardrails, and frameworks that help protect our customers' data in Apple’s infrastructure. Your work will help build solutions to a variety of outstanding security risks to Apple systems and data.
As our work is integral to the entire infrastructure stack, you will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of engineering teams across Apple. We cultivate strong relationships, build trust, and influence without direct authority. We communicate openly and clearly, collaborate enthusiastically, and value a diverse culture of healthy debate. Do these points resonate with you? If so, we want to talk!
We are looking for an Engineering Program Manager to lead program delivery for our Strategic Risk Security team. This team combines solutions engineering, architecture review, and advanced threat analysis to safeguard customer data and accounts worldwide.
In this role, you will be the operational backbone of the team—turning the results of deep technical analysis into structured plans. You will coordinate discovery sessions, lead post-incident follow-through to establish preventative controls, manage proactive risk mitigation roadmaps, and provide engineering leadership with the visibility and data needed to make informed risk decisions.
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience as an Engineering Program Manager or Technical Program Manager.
- 2+ years of experience managing projects or programs in the field of security.
- Project Management: Proficiency in managing complex projects, including defining scopes, setting timelines, and coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure timely and successful delivery.
- Execution at Scale: Proven ability to track large volumes of work items across many teams to completion, using metrics, clear ownership, and consistent follow-through.
- BS in technical field or equivalent industry experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Build Trust and Influence: Experience fostering collaboration and influencing stakeholders without direct authority to achieve program objectives.
- Communication Skills: Ability to convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive and senior leadership, with clarity, confidence, and alignment.