Cloud Media Engineer: Encoding, Live Streams & Cloud Tools

Socket.dev; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a curious, talented, and motivated engineer for the Cloud Media Engineering team to design and implement next-generation media systems and infrastructure. You will help build workflows and services powering media creation and delivery across our services, reaching billions of customers.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, own technical areas, and drive improvements in cloud media features.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work experience.
• Strong programming fundamentals in Swift, Objective-C, TypeScript, Python, or Rust.
• Familiarity with Apple platform frameworks such as Cocoa, AVFoundation, or iOS/macOS SDK.
• Experience with UI development and APIs.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
• Curious, systematic problem-solver who cares about quality.

Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud media tools and automated workflows for ingest, transcode, and processing at scale.
• Prototype optimizations across encoding pipelines and explore ML-enhanced metadata.
• Operate live streaming pipelines delivering sports, news, concerts, and events across Apple devices.
• Work with video codecs and codecs like FFmpeg, AV1, and ProRes to optimize quality.
• Learn broadcast distribution tech such as AES67, MPEG-TS, SRT, and Zixi under senior engineers.
• Deploy and maintain containerized services using Docker and Apple Container; scale deployments.
• Collaborate with applications, tooling, and data analytics teams.

Skills

Swift

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Object-Oriented Programming

APIs

Data structures

Algorithms

Concurrency

UI development

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

FFmpeg

AV1

ProRes

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Apple Container

Job description

Apple is seeking a curious, talented, and motivated engineer for the Cloud Media Engineering team to design and implement next-generation media systems and infrastructure. You will help build workflows and services powering media creation and delivery across our services, reaching billions of customers.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, own technical areas, and drive improvements in cloud media features.