Apple
Senior Software Engineer - Security
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in a related field (preferred).
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates security services that improve software supply-chain assurance and integrate trusted security controls into Apple engineering workflows.
What you'll do
- Build and operate security assurance tooling, including scanning, agentic and LLM-integrated components, backends, APIs, and workflow integrations.
- Develop supply-chain security capabilities such as dependency risk management, build and release integrity, artifact signing and verification, and policy-based admission.
- Own components end to end, meet service-level objectives, and collaborate on code and security reviews.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including production ownership of non-trivial systems.
- Proficiency in at least two of Python, Go, and Java; experience designing and operating distributed backends and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building and operating production agentic systems and LLM-integrated applications, including prompt engineering, orchestration, and evaluation.
- Working knowledge of software supply-chain security, application security assurance, Linux and macOS, shell scripting, and the software development lifecycle.
Nice to have
- Experience with policy admission systems, threat modeling, taint analysis, or other program-analysis techniques.
- Experience with full-stack engineering, containerization, orchestration, cloud infrastructure, or gRPC.
Pay
USD 175,000–308,500 base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Java, Bash, Linux, macOS, gRPC
AI focus
Build production agentic and LLM-integrated security analysis, including prompt engineering, orchestration, evaluation of model outputs, and guardrails for non-deterministic components.
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