Platform Backend Engineer for AI Agent Marketplace

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Stock programs

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Discretionary bonuses/commission

Discounted products and services

Job summary

Apple Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own the backend for Platform Apps & Technologies, including the registry, marketplace, and plugin ecosystem used by Apple's engineers.

You will design scalable schemas, build hosting pipelines, and implement authentication plus supply-chain safeguards, while hardening the service for production readiness and collaborating with client-side teams and security reviewers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering on large-scale systems.
• Experience with distributed systems, data-centric architectures, and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow the service behind the marketplace and plugin ecosystem.
• Design schema for plugins/servers/endorsements and manage hosting pipelines.
• Implement authentication and supply-chain checks to secure the catalog.
• Harden production readiness with uptime, staged rollouts, and scalable storage/cache decisions.
• Collaborate with client-side harness engineers and security reviewers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data-centric systems

Reliability

Cloud services

Applied ML

System design

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science or related experience

MS in Computer Science or related experience

Job description

Apple Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own the backend for Platform Apps & Technologies, including the registry, marketplace, and plugin ecosystem used by Apple's engineers.

You will design scalable schemas, build hosting pipelines, and implement authentication plus supply-chain safeguards, while hardening the service for production readiness and collaborating with client-side teams and security reviewers.