Apple

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Apps & Technologies

$150K–$278K

Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026

Experience: 5+ years industry experience as a Software Engineer working on deploying large-scale systems.
Education: Bachelor in Computer Science or related experience; MS in Computer Science or related experience is preferred.

About the job

Own and develop the backend registry, API, and database that let Apple engineers discover, install, and trust plugins, MCP servers, and skills for AI agents.

What you'll do

Design and maintain the plugin catalog, content hosting and ingestion pipelines, authentication, and supply-chain checks.
Harden the service for production, including uptime, safe rollouts, database and caching choices, and growth in catalog and install volume.
Collaborate with client-harness engineers and security reviewers.

What they ask for

Strong understanding of data-centric and distributed systems, reliability, and cloud services.
Hands-on experience designing and coding large-scale systems.
Proven experience with applied machine learning, data engineering, or similar.
Bachelor in Computer Science or related experience.

Nice to have

Experience with developer tools or developer productivity systems.
Experience with open source or inner source.

Pay

$150,400 and $277,600 (base pay range; USD)

AI focus

Build the marketplace and plugin ecosystem that distributes tools extending coding agents, including controls to help keep plugins safe.

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