Apple
Senior Software Engineer, SWE Program Tools
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and evolution of internal applications and services that support Apple employees in developing and delivering operating systems.
What you'll do
- Design and build applications, balancing hands-on coding with architectural leadership.
- Mentor engineers, review contributions, and drive technical decisions across projects.
- Work with users and cross-functional partners to improve tools and employee productivity.
What they ask for
- Expertise in one or more modern programming languages, such as Swift, Rust, TypeScript, or 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.
- Regularly uses agentic AI coding tools and critically reviews, verifies, and debugs AI-generated code.
Nice to have
- Experience improving engineering practices, developer productivity, tooling, automation, or processes adopted broadly.
- Strong proficiency with Apple frameworks and development workflows; familiarity with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Swift, Rust, TypeScript, Go, OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Regular use of agentic AI coding tools; critically review, verify, and debug AI-generated code, and assess where AI-assisted workflows improve team productivity.
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