In this role, you will own the architecture and technical direction of the systems that deliver Apples security capabilities - WAF protection against OWASP threats, DDoS mitigation, Bot Prevention, TLS termination/origination, real-time threat intelligence, and security policy enforcement across protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS). Deep experience with proxy technologies (NGINX, Envoy, HAProxy) across edge, origin, service mesh, and API & AI security gateway tiers - including protocol-level internals, security module/filter architectures, and load balancing strategies.