Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
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.

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, you will frequently collaborate with other security engineers and architects across Apple to identify, define, and design security solutions which elevate the overall security profile of Apple Services. You will develop internal frameworks, libraries, tools, and processes that make the secure path the easiest path for every engineer on the platform. You will design and implement security frameworks, controls, tooling, and automation for a Kubernetes-based multi-cloud platform serving Wallet & Payments Engineering.

You will champion secure-by-default infrastructure patterns and drive adoption of safe engineering practices across the organization without sacrificing developer velocity. Partnering with platform, product, and infrastructure engineering teams, you will identify security risks and deliver pragmatic mitigations at the architectural level. You will conduct threat modeling of new platform capabilities to incorporate security during early phases of platform development.

Additionally, you will respond to and lead resolution of incidents affecting the security of the developer platform, conducting thorough post-incident reviews. You will work AI-forward by using coding agents and LLM-based tooling as a normal part of development, owning the correctness of what you ship regardless of what drafted it.

Experience
- 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
- 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
- Experience hardening containers and orchestration: image provenance, admission control, runtime and network policy, service mesh configuration, and clean isolation across microservices
- 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

About you
- 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"
- Tenacity and perseverance to drive a complex project all the way from conception to production

Qualifications
BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience/skills in application development and security