Apple

Security Platform Automation Engineer

Apple$145K — $175K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1 year of building LLM- or agent-based systems in production.
  • 8+ years of experience in production automation and backend services.
  • Proficient in Python, Go, or Java.
  • Experience integrating APIs into reliable workflows.
  • Knowledge of application and cloud security concepts.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Build automation to scale security review across multiple services.
  • Develop AI-driven systems for operational review standards.
  • Design high-throughput pipelines for security reviewers.
  • Collaborate with security engineers to define and implement review standards.
  • Integrate existing security tools into cohesive automation solutions.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technology.
  • Collaborative environment with security experts and engineers.
  • A chance to impact the scale of security across a large organization.
  • Access to resources and tools to enhance professional skills.
  • Flexible work arrangements and supportive team culture.
Full Job Description
Description

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.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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