Apple
Security Platform Automation Engineer
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 1 year of production LLM- or agent-based systems and 8+ years building and operating production automation, data pipelines, or backend services.
- Education
- MS or BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, OR equivalent practical experience in Software or Security Engineering.
About the job
Lead architecture and development of an AI-assisted security review automation platform that scales threat modeling and triage across Apple services.
What you'll do
- Build and operate an AI-assisted review pipeline that produces structured, reviewable output at scale.
- Integrate the pipeline with existing security systems and build evaluation, feedback, and quality controls.
- Own software reliability, including service objectives, runbooks, tests, observability, and versioned prompts and skills.
What they ask for
- 1 year building LLM- or agent-based systems in production with a measured quality bar.
- 8+ years building and operating production automation, data pipelines, or backend services.
- High proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or Java.
- Experience integrating APIs, tools, and services into reliable workflows; working knowledge of application and cloud security.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent engineering, bounded-autonomy workflows, or AI evaluation harnesses.
- Familiarity with AWS cloud resources and security tooling such as SAST/SCA scanners or SBOM tooling.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Java, AWS, S3, EC2, Lambda, Step Functions
AI focus
Build and evaluate AI agents for security threat modeling, triage, and review automation, with quality gates and reviewer feedback loops.
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