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Senior Software Engineer, SWE Program Tools

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino$150.4k - $277.6kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior engineer responsible for design, development, and evolution of internal applications and services that support Apple employees. Balances hands-on coding with architectural leadership, mentoring, and driving technical decisions across projects while delivering high-quality, user-focused solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development, and evolution of applications that empower the day-to-day work of tens of thousands of Apple employees.
  • Balance hands-on coding with architectural leadership — designing systems, mentoring engineers, reviewing contributions, and driving technical decisions across projects.
  • Obcess over user experience; adopt and adapt great technical or process solutions across projects.
  • Collaborate with users, cross-functional partners, and leaders across Apple; communicate effectively and drive collaboration across disciplines.
  • Establish and raise the bar for engineering practices: define standards for collaboration, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and coach the team to sustain them.
  • Drive systemic improvements to developer or employee productivity by building and evangelizing tooling, automation, or process changes that are broadly adopted.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Expertise in one or more modern programming languages (e.g. Swift, Rust, TypeScript, Go)
  • Track record of owning shipped features end to end, from problem definition through release and post-release iteration
  • Experience gathering requirements directly from users (e.g., interviewing users, leading usability sessions, or serving as the primary engineering contact for a group of users)
  • Uses agentic AI coding tools regularly; critically reviews, verifies, and debugs AI-generated code, and can judge where AI-assisted workflows do and don't improve team productivity
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills; experienced collaborating with teams across a wide range of disciplines and technologies
  • Experience establishing and raising the bar for engineering practices (standards for collaboration, testing, CI/CD)
  • Experience driving improvements to developer or employee productivity via tooling, automation, or process changes
  • Strong proficiency with Apple frameworks and development workflows
  • Familiar with modern observability tooling and approaches (e.g. OpenTelemetry)

Skills

Required:Software engineeringUser interviewing / requirements gatheringCommunication and collaboration
Nice to have:AI tooling usage and review

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Possible discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • Relocation assistance
  • Employee stock purchase plan
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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