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Senior Software Engineer, Platform Apps & Technologies, Developer Workflows

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, CA$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior engineer to lead backend platform services powering Apple's continuous integration infrastructure. Owns design and architecture of CI APIs, reliability, and developer experience; partners with UI team; leads on-call and incident response; drives scalability and operational excellence across multiple services.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and architecture of APIs for Apple's CI services, supporting diverse project and pipeline configurations at scale
  • Design systems that reliably annotate PRs with build and test results
  • Architect and maintain the services that initiate CI builds from multiple sources, guaranteeing reliable, high-throughput invocation across a wide range of use cases
  • Work closely with the UI team to integrate features seamlessly across backend and frontend, ensuring clean contracts and a cohesive developer experience
  • Build and evolve services that extract and surface relevant failure information from logs, driving improvements in failure analysis and developer productivity
  • Drive the evolution of services that integrate with developer workflows, shaping how they scale and where they should improve
  • Use metrics and data to analyze, design, and validate solutions for performance and reliability
  • Lead on-call and incident response for critical services, troubleshooting complex issues, resolving them durably, and continuously improving system reliability and operational practices

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of industry software engineering experience, focused on backend services or platform infrastructure
  • Proficiency in a language suited to backend systems work such as Scala, Java or Kotlin
  • Experience working with database systems, including SQL and/or NoSQL, for storing, querying, and managing large-scale data
  • Strong understanding of software design principles, distributed systems, and service architecture
  • Proven track record of leading technical work from design through production, including driving alignment on cross-functional efforts
  • Experience designing or owning systems that handle scale, reliability, and integration across multiple services, including cloud infrastructure, databases, and APIs
  • Skilled in using observability and analytics tools such as Splunk, Grafana, or similar tools to analyze system performance, diagnose issues, and validate reliability improvements
  • Experience with production operations — on-call, incident response, and improving the health of services
  • Proven ability to work independently on complex problems and collaborate effectively across teams
  • B.S. / M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
  • Deep expertise in API design, RESTful services, microservices architecture, event-driven architectures, message queues, or asynchronous processing systems
  • Experience with API gateways, authentication, or authorization frameworks
  • Familiarity with observability, logging, and distributed tracing for diagnosing production issues
  • Experience with CI/CD systems, build pipelines, or developer platform infrastructure
  • Background with version control systems integration and SCM-related workflows
  • Familiarity with macOS or iOS development environments and build processes
  • Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to team-level technical standards
  • Ability to identify and tackle problems quickly and optimally
  • Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and using them to improve engineering productivity
  • Programming languages like Swift or Python are nice to have

Skills

Required:Backend service design and architectureAPI design and RESTful servicesDistributed systemsObservability and monitoringOn-call and incident responseLeadership and cross-team collaboration
Nice to have:Cloud, databases, APIs integrationMentoring and technical standards

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation assistance
  • Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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