Apple
Senior Software Platform Engineer, Apple Pay
$185K–$325K
New York City, New York · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems.
About the job
Build and operate Kubernetes-native developer platform services, APIs, and infrastructure tooling for Wallet, Payments and Commerce engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native services, controllers, and APIs in Go.
- Create declarative APIs for infrastructure provisioning and improve platform performance, reliability, and observability.
- Participate in on-call, resolve incidents, and use coding agents and LLM-based tools while ensuring shipped code is correct.
What they ask for
- Strong Go programming skills, including API design, concurrency, and error handling.
- Experience with distributed systems and practical performance profiling and optimization.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and extensive cloud experience with at least one major cloud provider.
- Effective written and verbal communication, including design documents and incident write-ups.
Nice to have
- Production experience writing Kubernetes controllers or operators; familiarity with declarative configuration, templating, or infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience in areas such as GitOps, developer platforms, multi-region systems, observability, or regulated environments; familiarity with coding agents and LLM-based development tools.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (base pay range; USD)
Tools
Go (GoLang), Kubernetes, Pkl, CUE, Jsonnet, Kustomize, Helm, Terraform
AI focus
Use coding agents and LLM-based development tooling as a normal part of development, while owning the correctness of shipped work.
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