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Senior Software Platform Engineer, Apple Pay

Apple· Software and Services
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About the role

Senior software engineering role focused on building and operating Apple Pay's internal developer platform used across Wallet, Payments and Commerce. Responsible for designing APIs, writing production code, and ensuring performance, correctness, and reliability of platform subsystems. Emphasizes strong testing, incident response, on-call rotations, and AI-forward development tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build Kubernetes-native services, controllers and APIs in Go, owning each subsystem from design review through production operation.
  • Turn complex infrastructure provisioning into simple declarative APIs for application teams.
  • Make the platform fast and predictable at scale, diagnose performance and correctness issues across regions.
  • Raise engineering quality through test coverage, code review, and observability.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and implement permanent fixes or guardrails after incidents.
  • Work AI-forward by using coding agents and LLM-based tooling, ensuring correctness of what's shipped.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems.
  • Strong programming ability in Go (GoLang) with solid API design, concurrency and error handling fundamentals.
  • Real testing practice focusing on catching regressions.
  • Distributed systems experience (idempotency, eventual consistency, retries, partial failure) and practical performance tuning.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes and extensive cloud experience with at least one major provider.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, including design documents and incident write-ups.

Skills

Required:Go (GoLang)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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