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Platform Security Engineer

Apple· Software and Services
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Hybrid (London, England, United Kingdom)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Platform Security Engineer for Wallet & Payments Security Solutions, focusing on secure-by-default practices for a Kubernetes-based multi-cloud developer platform serving Apple Pay domains (Payments, Transit, Access & Identity).

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.

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.
  • 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

Skills

Required:Platform securityGoKotlin/Java & Spring FrameworkThreat modelingCloud platforms (multi-cloud)Kubernetes securityIdentity and Access managementContainers hardeningSupply Chain SecurityCryptography & protocolsLLM-based development tooling
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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