Creative Applications: Senior Developer Experience Engineer

Socket.dev; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple seeks a senior engineer to own and evolve the developer experience, including tools and workflows used by multiple engineering teams. You will identify high-impact problems and implement fixes through tooling, process changes, or direct collaboration.

You will report to the org leader and help shape delivery across teams, ensuring a coherent and efficient engineering environment. Ideal candidates have deep experience with iOS development, build systems, and delivering internal tooling that

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with Xcode and iOS development.
• Experience building internal tools that solve real problems.
• Experience with build systems, continuous integration, or automated test infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own the rapidly evolving developer experience: tools, workflows, and day-to-day practices for engineers.
• Identify high-impact problems and address them via tooling changes, process changes, or direct conversations.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to shape delivery systems and future roadmaps.
• Report to the org leader and influence how work gets done across teams.

Skills

8+ years experience

Xcode/iOS Development

Internal tools

CI/CD infrastructure

Tools

Xcode

CI Systems

Job description

At Apple, how well a creative engineering organization runs and evolves is by design. Our artists and engineers work at the cutting edge of many disciplines and technologies, and the developer experience behind them — the tools, the systems, the workflows — has to evolve just as quickly, so that teams building complex, multifaceted creative projects can amplify their creativity and ship with confidence. This is an ideal role for an engineer who has spent time on both sides of delivery — writing the code, and shaping how the work gets done — and wants a role where both of those skills count.

Description

In this role, you'll own the rapidly evolving developer experience: the tools, the workflows, and the day-to-day practices our engineers build with. You'll identify the highest-impact problems and address them through tooling changes, process changes, or direct conversations. Finding the right fix for each problem is your responsibility. You'll report directly to the org leader with their full support. Working closely with multiple specialized engineering teams, you'll own the systems, workflows, and approaches that help them reach their goals. You won't be starting from scratch: tooling and delivery reporting already exist and are in active use, and you'll determine where they go and what to build next.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with Xcode and iOS Development.
• Experience building internal or customer-facing tools that solve real problems.
• Experience with build systems, continuous integration, or automated test infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building developer-facing tooling that engineering teams use daily.
• Experience changing how an engineering team works: ownership models, review practices, quality gates.
• Experience owning delivery across teams as a technical program lead, or in a role that combined engineering with program ownership.
• Fluency with current agent architecture patterns, and a track record of adapting as they change.