Apple
Senior Platform Software Engineer
$142K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience; significant experience building complex backend services and distributed systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Build and operate the core services, APIs, developer tools, and operational foundations of Apple’s Data Engineering Platform, enabling data and machine learning engineers to work at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and operate Go services, declarative APIs, and platform deployment and release patterns.
- Improve production reliability through observability, alerting, release safety, incident recovery, and durable data models.
- Develop developer tooling and reusable AI-assisted engineering workflows; shape technical standards and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building complex backend services and distributed systems.
- Track record shipping and operating production backend services and developer-facing tools; experience designing durable APIs, schemas, or interfaces.
- Experience with CI/CD and safe releases, relational databases and schema migrations, distributed systems, and production operations including on-call and incident response.
Nice to have
- Experience building infrastructure, developer platforms, CLI tools, or infrastructure-as-code systems such as Terraform or OpenTofu.
- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, or relational databases such as PostgreSQL or CockroachDB.
Pay
$142,300 and $263,300 (USD, base salary range)
Tools
Go, Terraform, OpenTofu, Open Policy Agent, Rego, PKL, CUE, Jsonnet
AI focus
Develop reusable AI-assisted engineering workflows and establish patterns for building, evaluating, sharing, and maintaining skills and agents.
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