Apple

Senior Platform Software Engineer

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2 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate Go services and declarative platform interfaces.
  • Own artifact immutability, signing, semantic versioning, dependency pinning, and release standards.
  • Define deployment contracts, environment promotion models, and Kubernetes topology for platform services and partner teams.
  • Drive operational excellence through service level objectives, alerting, release provenance, availability, rollback, incident response, and post-incident follow-through.
  • Build and improve CLI tools, project scaffolding, APIs, documentation, onboarding, and developer feedback loops.
  • Set technical direction across CDI, evaluate emerging technologies, mentor engineers, and scale AI-assisted development practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing systems work.
  • Strong Go experience building and operating production backend services and command-line tools.
  • Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience, including Helm, configuration layering, probes, resource and replica strategy, rolling updates, and network policy.
  • Experience owning CI/CD pipelines and release engineering, including environment promotion and automated rollback.
  • Strong relational database, distributed systems, and Go concurrency fundamentals.
  • Production ownership experience involving on-call, incident response, telemetry, and operational improvement.
  • Experience authoring reusable skills or agents for AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Copilot.
  • Preferred experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, policy-as-code, Open Policy Agent, Rego, PKL, CUE, Jsonnet, artifact registries, OpenTelemetry, mTLS workload identity, certificate rotation, secret management, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, data governance, privacy engineering, compliance, multi-tenancy, and developer engagement.
Apple

About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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