Apple

Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Platforms Engineering

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8 hours ago
Shanghai, ChinaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Embed with engineering customer teams to understand applications and workflows and translate their needs into technical designs.
  • Design, build, test, integrate, deploy, and operate production platform software.
  • Develop Go backend services, React and TypeScript applications, APIs, distributed systems, and infrastructure automation.
  • Operate owned services through on-call participation, observability, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
  • Build LLM integrations, agentic workflows, evaluations, and quality controls for production use.
  • Turn recurring customer-specific requirements into reusable platform capabilities and provide technical leadership across teams.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and delivering production software.
  • Strong backend development skills in Go or a comparable language such as Rust, C++, or Python, with the ability to become productive in Go.
  • Understanding of software architecture, REST and gRPC APIs, distributed applications, relational data modeling, networking, Linux, authentication, transport security, and production operations.
  • Hands-on experience with relational and distributed SQL databases, major cloud providers, service-to-service security, software delivery, observability, and incident response.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership on multi-team projects and the ability to work from loosely defined requirements.
  • Preferred qualifications include a BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience, frontend development with React and TypeScript, platform or infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, distributed systems, multi-region infrastructure, observability, progressive delivery, and LLM or agentic workflow integrations.
  • Preferred experience includes mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, setting technical direction, and managing infrastructure or fleets at scale.

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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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