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Software Engineer - Build Support Engineering

Apple· Software and Services
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San Diego, CA$142.3k - $214.3kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer on the Build Support Engineering (BSE) team responsible for modernizing large-scale build and deployment systems, migrating legacy codebases to modern multi-repo workflows, standardizing containerized build artifacts, and integrating AI-driven tools to automate triage, debugging, and developer support across Apple’s Commerce and platform engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services and APIs in Java and Python that power build, deployment, and hotfix workflows for engineering teams across Apple.
  • Collaborate with project managers and partner teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions that improve developer productivity.
  • Modernize legacy build-and-deploy pipelines, consolidating multiple build artifact types onto a single standardized containerized image deployed identically across environments.
  • Develop and maintain multi-repo developer tooling - build, hotfix, request, and auto-merge systems - that enable hundreds of developers to build, test, and deploy services efficiently.
  • Integrate AI-driven and agentic tools into on-call triage, debugging, and developer support to automate workflows, surface intelligent insights, and reduce operational toil.
  • Design and build agentic AI systems - tool-using, multi-step agents and skills that autonomously triage pages, investigate build and deployment failures, and assist developers and SREs.
  • Build and maintain containerized services using Kubernetes for reliable deployment and orchestration.
  • Evolve platform architectures for reliability, maintainability, and performance at scale, while adding unit and integration test coverage and addressing security vulnerabilities.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that upholds Apple’s high standard of engineering excellence.
  • Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and production troubleshooting, sharing knowledge and elevating quality across the team.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation to enable rapid, safe deployments and hotfixes.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of industry experience building backend systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Java and Python.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and deployment.
  • Familiarity with utilizing and developing AI-driven and agentic tools to improve workflows and productivity.
  • Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems principles.
  • Experience with databases (relational and/or NoSQL) and scalable service architectures.
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
  • BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science/Engineering

Skills

Required:Backend programmingJavaPythonKubernetesDistributed systemsDatabasesCI/CDTeam collaboration
Nice to have:AI/agentic tooling

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (eligible)
  • relocation (potential)
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through discretionary stock programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Sep 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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