Security Platform Automation Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted
13 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Security Platform Automation Engineer

The Security Platform Automation Engineer joins the Assurance Automation & Risk Management team within the Security organization. This role involves designing and operating an AI-assisted Security Automation Platform to scale security reviews across thousands of backend services. You will build a review automation pipeline that ingests services to perform AI-assisted threat modeling and triage, producing structured output at scale. Key responsibilities include implementing AI skills, routing criteria, and quality feedback loops while integrating with existing security engineering tooling like SBOM, scanning, and risk-acceptance systems. You must be proficient in Python, Go, or Java and have experience building LLM-based systems, agentic workflows, and data pipelines. The work addresses critical security challenges in software supply chain, security posture, and risk management for global services.

What you'll do

  • Design system interfaces that make existing security systems consumable by AI agents.
  • Build and maintain an automation pipeline for AI-assisted threat modeling and triage at scale.
  • Implement AI skills and routing criteria to meet specific precision, recall, and false positive targets.
  • Integrate the automation pipeline with existing security tooling like SBOM, scanning, and risk-acceptance systems.
  • Build a quality feedback loop to continuously improve automation based on reviewer validation signals.
  • Own prompt, skill, and model versioning as code with integrated evaluation gates.
  • Develop high-quality software with comprehensive runbooks, tests, and observability to ensure system reliability.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating production automation, data pipelines, or backend services.
  • 1 year of experience building LLM- or agent-based systems that ran in production with a measured quality bar.
  • 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 and AI agent workflows.
  • Working knowledge of application and cloud security concepts including threat modeling, vulnerabilities, and secure configuration.
  • MS or BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in Software or Security Engineering.
  • Experience with Agent engineering including retrieval, grounding, citation, reasoning, and agentic workflow design (preferred).
  • Familiarity with AWS cloud resources, security tooling like SAST/SCA, or supply-chain security (preferred).

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