Architect, Perimeter and Network Security, Enterprise Technology Services
Not Disclosed•Full-TimeOn-site
location_on602, Santa Catalina Terrace, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California, 94085, United States
About the Team
At Apple, new insights often become revolutionary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. The Emerging Technologies team within IS&T specializes in building forward-looking, extremely scalable systems and solutions in two areas: Information Security and general-purpose, reusable platforms in the space of Integration and Orchestration.
We operate with a startup mindset—lean teams, high ownership, and technical leaders who flex across domains to build and scale new capabilities. Our team has a passion for solving challenging problems, exploring new domains, and engineering transformational solutions.
About the Role
The Emerging Technologies team is seeking an industry-recognized Architect to serve as the domain expert for Apple's perimeter and network security platform. You will be the technical authority across the full traffic path—edge proxies, origin/application load balancers, service mesh, and API & AI security gateways—architecting the defenses that protect Apple's services at scale.
This is a deeply technical, hands-on role for a recognized industry expert. You are expected to write code, prototype solutions, lead design efforts, and raise the technical bar for the entire team—not through management authority, but through expertise, influence, and the quality of your work. You will partner with Apple's security and cloud infrastructure teams to drive a unified security vision, and work directly with application teams across the company to understand their traffic patterns and solve their integrated security needs.
Equal Opportunity
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to hire and promote people of all backgrounds. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers we serve and the communities in which we operate.
Work location
Work model: On-site
602, Santa Catalina Terrace, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California, 94085, United States
Sunnyvale, California
Key Responsibilities
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Skills, education and keywords
Skills: Information Security, Integration, Orchestration, Perimeter Security, Threat Mitigation, Proxy Technologies, Waf, Ddos Mitigation, Bot Prevention, TLS.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent; M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Frequently asked questions about Architect, Perimeter and Network Security, Enterprise Technology Services at Apple
What does a Architect, Perimeter and Network Security, Enterprise Technology Services at Apple do?expand_more
Day-to-day, the Architect, Perimeter and Network Security, Enterprise Technology Services at Apple will define and drive the long-term security architecture and roadmap for perimeter defenses; own the security architecture across all proxy tiers and the orchestration control plane; drive technical design reviews and establish design standards for the engineering team; and collaborate with security, infrastructure, and application teams to align security vision.
What are the requirements for this Architect, Perimeter and Network Security, Enterprise Technology Services role?expand_more
Apple is looking for candidates who meet the following requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent; 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience; Expert-level understanding of perimeter and network security; Deep experience with proxy technologies (NGINX, Envoy, HAProxy); Experience designing orchestration/control plane systems; and Experience with on-premises and public cloud (GCP, AWS).