Security Platform Automation Engineer

Apple • Seattle, WA

3h

About The Position

We are the Assurance Automation & Risk Management team within Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security org. We are responsible for securing the platforms, infrastructure, and distributed systems behind Apple’s global services, including iCloud, App Store, Apple Music, TV+, Maps, and Commerce. Apple operates thousands of critical backend services across a rapidly expanding global footprint. We have a transformative opportunity to amplify security experts reach by building the next-generation AI-assisted Security Automation Platform. Rather than building isolated tooling, we turn expert security standards into robust, running software by combining agentic workflows, deterministic scaffolding, and rigorous evaluation gates integrated directly into Apple’s core security data systems (Security Findings, Bill of Materials, and Risk Governance). We are hiring Tech Lead to lead the software architecture and agentic engineering of this platform. Your effort will help build solutions to a variety of outstanding security challenges in software supply chain, security posture, and risk management. Join us, and you’ll play a meaningful role in ensuring the highest standard of security for one of the most-watched companies in the world.

We’re looking for an exceptional automation engineer to build the pipeline that scales security review across Apple’s 1000s+ services. You will turn security expertise into running software, designing and operating AI agentic review system, skills, tool layer, evaluation harness on top of Apple's existing security tooling, and giving reviewers a reliable, high-throughput pipeline to execute against. You’ll partner closely with the security engineers who define the review standards and the analysts who validate the output, and build automation that reduces toil.

Requirements

• 1 year of building LLM- or agent-based systems that ran in production, with a measured quality bar
• 8+ years building and operating production automation, data pipelines, or backend services
• Highly proficient in at least one of Python, Go, or Java
• Experience integrating third-party and first-party APIs, tooling, and services into reliable end-to-end workflows and AI agent workflows
• Working knowledge of application and cloud security concepts (threat modeling, vulnerabilities, secure configuration)
• MS or BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field OR equivalent practical experience in Software or Security Engineering

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Agent engineering: retrieval, grounding, citation, reasoning
• Experience with Agentic workflow design with bounded autonomy, building LLM- or agent-based automation and evaluating output quality (precision/recall, human-in-the-loop feedback loops), AI agent evaluation harness as CI
• Familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, etc.)
• Experience with security tooling such as SAST/SCA scanners, SBOM tooling, or vulnerability intelligence platforms
• Background in security review, threat modeling, or supply-chain security
• Experience delivering tooling used by non-engineer reviewers or contractors at scale
• Awareness of AI-specific threats in systems that ingest untrusted input

Responsibilities

• Lead the software architecture and agentic engineering of the AI-assisted Security Automation Platform.
• Build solutions for software supply chain, security posture, and risk management.
• Build the pipeline that scales security review across Apple’s services.
• Turn security expertise into running software.
• Design and operate AI agentic review systems, skills, tool layers, and evaluation harnesses.
• Integrate automation into Apple's core security data systems.
• Partner with security engineers and analysts.
• Build automation that reduces toil.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree