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Senior Software Engineer - Global Subscriptions and Pricing Infrastructure

Apple· Software and Services
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Seattle$175k - $308.5kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Apple’s Pricing Infrastructure team builds and scales the ASE Pricing Platform powering subscription services across 175+ countries. The role focuses on designing, scaling, and evolving critical systems that power Apple’s global pricing, with emphasis on distributed, fault-tolerant backend services, pricing caches, developer APIs, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build distributed, fault-tolerant services that scale with Apple’s global commerce ecosystem, demonstrating a deep understanding of highly scalable backend applications.
  • Own critical components like Pricing Cache 2 (PC2), providing reliable and efficient pricing lookups at Apple scale, ensuring accuracy and performance.
  • Design and implement developer-facing APIs, with a deep understanding of HTTP and REST APIs, enabling Apple Developers to configure offers and subscriptions with accuracy and confidence.
  • Partner closely with cross-functional teams (Commerce, Finance, AppleCare, and Apple Services) to ensure pricing accuracy, compliance, and tax/royalty correctness, fostering strong collaboration.
  • Drive modernization of the pricing codebase, establishing coding patterns and standards across multiple repositories, with high test automation, observability, and monitoring.
  • Mentor engineers, providing guidance on writing efficient, maintainable, and testable code, and influence architectural decisions across Pricing Infrastructure.
  • Be empowered to challenge the status quo, care about the details, the end user, and how it all comes together, as you build new features, data models, and user workflows.

Qualifications

  • 6+ current and industry years experience of crafting, implementing, and supporting highly scalable backend applications.
  • Proven expertise in designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
  • Expert experience with Java (or Scala).
  • Meaningful experience with SQL & NoSQL technologies (e.g., Oracle, Cassandra) and messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka).
  • Demonstrated grasp of multi-threaded, asynchronous programming concepts.
  • A deep understanding of HTTP and REST APIs.
  • Ability to design and establish coding patterns/standards across multiple code repositories.
  • Proven track record to re-architect an expansive codebase while transitioning to new technologies/frameworks.
  • Strong background in Unix/Unix-like systems.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a strong ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Backend architectureJava (or Scala)SQL & NoSQLKafkaHTTP/REST APIsMulti-threaded programmingUnix/Unix-like systems
Nice to have:Code standards and mentoring

Benefits

  • Apple benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and free services, reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition.
  • Discretionary employee stock programs and possibility of stock purchase plan.
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation may be eligible.
Last updated Jul 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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