Platform Security Engineer

Apple Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in London seeks a Platform Security Engineer to design, build and operate security frameworks for a Kubernetes-based developer platform across multiple clouds.

You will partner closely with platform and product engineering teams to embed security into every stage of the development lifecycle, ensuring guardrails never become friction. Your work will directly protect Apple customers and the engineers who build the products they rely on every day.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform security or security engineering with infra/app development.
• Experience in Go, Kotlin/Java and Spring Framework.
• Strong written and verbal communication across global teams.
• Passion for developer enablement and security as a product.
• Tenacity to drive complex projects from conception to production.

Responsibilities

• Develop internal security frameworks, libraries, tools, and processes for engineers.
• Design and implement security frameworks, controls, tooling, and automation for a Kubernetes-based multi-cloud platform.
• Champion secure-by-default infrastructure patterns and drive adoption without sacrificing velocity.
• Partner with platform, product, and infra teams to identify risks and mitigations at architectural level.
• Conduct threat modeling of new platform capabilities during early development.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Work with AI tooling and ensure correctness of what you ship.

Skills

Platform security

Go

Kotlin/Java

Spring Framework

Communication

Security as product

Project delivery

Threat modeling

Education

BS in Computer Science

Equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

RBAC

Admission control

Networking policies

Cloud providers

Job description

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Platform Security Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom Software and Services

The Wallet & Payments Security Solutions team sits at the intersection of developer experience and customer trust, building the foundational security layer that every product in the Apple Pay portfolio depends on. We are a group of security engineers passionate about enabling fast, safe engineering at scale across a modern, Kubernetes-based multi-cloud platform. This role is an opportunity to shape secure-by-default practices across Apple Pay engineering organizations working on Payments, Transit, Access, & Identity products. If you're passionate about security and customer safety, we may have the job for you.

Description

As a Platform Security Engineer on the Wallet & Payments Security Solutions team, you will design, build, and operate security application frameworks and solutions for a Kubernetes-based developer platform spanning multiple cloud providers. You will partner closely with platform and product engineering teams to embed security into every stage of the development lifecycle, ensuring guardrails never become friction. Your work will directly protect Apple customers and the engineers who build the products they rely on every day. Further, as part of this role, you will frequently collaborate with other security engineers and architects across Apple to identify, define and design security solutions which elevate overall security profile of Apple Services.

Responsibilities

• Develop internal frameworks, libraries, tools and processes that make the secure path the easiest path for every engineer on the platform
• Design and implement security frameworks, controls, tooling, and automation for a Kubernetes-based multi-cloud platform serving Wallet & Payments Engineering
• Champion secure-by-default infrastructure patterns and drive adoption of safe engineering practices across the organization without sacrificing developer velocity
• Partner with platform, product, and infrastructure engineering teams to identify security risks and deliver pragmatic mitigations at the architectural level
• Conduct threat modeling of new platform capabilities to incorporate security during early phases of platform development
• Respond to and lead resolution of incidents affecting the security of developer platform, conducting thorough post-incident reviews
• Work AI-forward by using coding agents and LLM-based tooling as a normal part of development, and own the correctness of what you ship regardless of what drafted it.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in platform security and/or software engineering experience in infrastructure and application development, or a closely related security engineering discipline
• Experience in Go, Kotlin/Java and Spring Framework.
• Ability to communicate thoughtfully and clearly, both verbally and in writing, to discuss complex technical concepts with diverse audiences, including global teams.
• Passion for developer enablement and building "security as a product"
• The tenacity and perseverance to drive a complex project all the way from conception to production.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience/skills in application development and security.
• Prior experience contributing to or driving a secure-by-default platform initiative across a large engineering organization
• Experience with Identity and Access management frameworks
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes security, including RBAC, admission control, pod security standards, network policy, and workload identity
• Experience designing and implementing security controls across at least two major cloud providers and not just defining policies.
• Experience hardening containers and orchestration: image provenance, admission control, runtime and network policy, service mesh configuration, and clean isolation across micro services
• Experience with Supply Chain Security and optimizing Vulnerability management loop.
• Identity protocols and applied cryptography in practice: OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, SAML, mutual TLS, PKI, encryption and signing primitives.
• Fluency with coding agents and LLM-based development tooling, and judgment about when to trust their output.

At Apple, we're not all the same. And that's our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law.

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