Apple

Senior Security Platform Automation Engineer

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10 hours ago

Responsibilities

  • Build, support, refactor, and ship security automation systems, backend services, and web applications.
  • Develop security controls, guardrails, frameworks, risk-scoring pipelines, compliance workflows, and agentic risk-assessment capabilities.
  • Own critical components from technical design through production delivery and improve their operational excellence.
  • Modernize legacy security tools, migrate systems, and build new systems from scratch.
  • Integrate first-party and third-party APIs, tools, and services into reliable end-to-end workflows.
  • Prepare systems for low-friction, low-maintenance production operation through staged deployments, test environments, automated testing, and observability.
  • Mentor engineers and influence technical solutions and engineering practices.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building, operating, and maintaining production software, including backend services and automation.
  • High proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or Java.
  • Experience building production web frontends with TypeScript and React.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience maintaining and refactoring legacy production systems, migrating systems, and building new systems from scratch.
  • Experience building systems with staged deployments, test environments, automated testing, and observability.
  • Experience integrating first-party and third-party APIs, tools, and services into reliable workflows.
  • A BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in Software or Security Engineering.
  • Preferred: production experience in more than one of Python, Go, or Java.
  • Preferred: application and cloud security knowledge, including threat modeling, vulnerabilities, and secure configuration.
  • Preferred: experience with SAST/SCA scanners, SBOM tooling, or vulnerability intelligence platforms.
  • Preferred: experience building LLM- or agent-based features, tool calling, MCP integrations, or AI output evaluation.
  • Preferred: familiarity with AWS resources such as S3, EC2, Lambda, and Step Functions.
  • Preferred: experience building batch or streaming data pipelines, Swift or mobile development, and tooling for non-engineer users.
  • Preferred: experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices.
Apple

About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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