Senior Software Engineer - Security & Supply Chain

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 309,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

Employee stock purchase plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate security services and tooling that support Apple’s software at scale.

You will own components end-to-end, collaborate across security teams, and contribute to automated assurance across iCloud, App Store, Music, TV+, and Commerce. The role requires deep experience in distributed systems, security tooling, and CI/CD with Linux/macOS proficiency.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with production ownership of non-trivial systems
• Proficiency in at least two: Python, Go, Java; comfortable with others as needed
• Solid knowledge of software supply chain security concepts, including package and dependency risk, build and release integrity, artifact signing and verification, attestation infrastructure and policy-based admission
• Experience designing, building, and operating agentic systems and LLM-integrated applications in production including prompt engineering, orchestration, and evaluation of model outputs
• Familiarity with application security assurance methodologies, including static and dynamic analysis approaches and their operational trade-offs
• Experience designing and operating distributed backends: APIs, data pipelines, and services with meaningful uptime and performance requirements
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and integrating security controls into them
• Comfortable operating in Linux and macOS environments, with proficiency in a shell scripting language such as Bash
• Working understanding of the full software development lifecycle building, testing, deploying, and monitoring production software

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate security services and features, including scanning and assurance tooling, agentic and LLM-integrated components, backends and APIs
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and product security teams to build tooling used across Apple to develop, ship, and operate services securely at scale
• Participate in code and security reviews to help peers meet a high bar for quality and security
• Conduct research, prototyping, and present designs and results to team and internal customers
• Own significant components end to end and stay close to the code as they evolve

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Shell scripting (Bash)

CI/CD automation

LLM integration

Distributed systems

Security principles

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

gRPC

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate security services and tooling that support Apple’s software at scale.

You will own components end-to-end, collaborate across security teams, and contribute to automated assurance across iCloud, App Store, Music, TV+, and Commerce. The role requires deep experience in distributed systems, security tooling, and CI/CD with Linux/macOS proficiency.