Software Engineer - Apple Services Engineering

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, APIs, data pipelines, and AI-powered applications.
• Develop and productize AI capabilities and help teams adopt AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Monitor production systems and improve reliability, observability, and performance.

What they ask for

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership across the software development lifecycle.
• Experience developing scalable, observable, resilient backend services and RESTful APIs.
• Strong proficiency in Java and one or more backend languages such as Kotlin, Go, or Python; knowledge of distributed systems, databases, and cloud-native development.
• Hands-on experience building production applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs).

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, data pipelines, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience with RAG, vector databases, AI agents, model evaluation, or listed platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock.

Pay

$142,300 and $263,300 (base pay range)

Tools

Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, RESTful APIs, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Kafka/RabbitMQ

AI focus

Build and productize LLM-powered applications and intelligent workflows; identify AI opportunities and promote AI-assisted development practices.