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Apple Senior WebKit Engine Security Engineer United States, California, San Diego 356504949
07.04.2025
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Join us in building the best, most secure browser engine! You’ll bring to bear the hardware and software integration that only Apple offers. You’ll take bold steps to eradicate whole classes of security issues. And you will work directly with industry leading experts in fuzz testing, cryptography, and operating system security. This is a dream job in software security
As a WebKit Engine Security Engineer you will work on security hardening of the WebKit engine. This involves both fixing security bugs and working strategically to prevent future security issues. You’ll collaborate across teams at Apple to drive security improvements in our platform and also interact with developers on the Open Source WebKit project.IN CONCRETE TERMS, YOU’LL WORK ON:Improved memory management, for instance through smart pointers.Sandboxing, inter-process communication, and process isolation.Innovative technologies to eliminate classes of security issues.Architectural changes to improve security.Programming language enhancements to improve security.Static analysis of source code.New testing strategies and improved testability.Down-to-earth security bug fixing.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Strong skills in a manual memory managed and pointer-based language such as C, C++, or Objective-C.
- Experience in finding and correcting bugs with security implications.
- Experience in multi-process and multi-threaded programming.
- Experience programming with libraries through APIs without having access to the implementation details.
- Engineers often build successful careers on the WebKit team without prior experience working in web browsers. Some of these skills can give you an advantageous head start:
- Experience with Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Experience with the UIKit, AppKit, and CFNetwork frameworks.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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