Senior Backend Engineer, Developer Tools & Infra

Apple Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 308,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option program

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Comprehensive medical/dental coverage

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Diego, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend for Developer Publications. You will shape backend systems for documentation workflows across Xcode, Swift Playgrounds, and Apple’s developer site.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while driving architecture discussions and robust engineering practices. The role emphasizes designing reliable services, scalable APIs, and tooling with a focus on high‑quality code, performance, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Excellent understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience shipping high-quality, performant and reliable products and features.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, understand needs, and define test strategies.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with software developers, designers, technical writers and program managers to define and scope backend infrastructure needs.
• Model great software engineering practices by producing well-tested, performant and reliable code to the multiple systems we maintain.
• Write detailed architecture and design proposals.
• Participate in the team culture and engage in code review, pair programming and architecture discussions with other members of the team.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams across Apple to ensure our tools and systems integrate seamlessly.
• Constantly seek areas of improvement.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

API design

Software architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Testing strategies

Communication/problem solving

Tools

Ruby

Rails

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Diego, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend for Developer Publications. You will shape backend systems for documentation workflows across Xcode, Swift Playgrounds, and Apple’s developer site.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while driving architecture discussions and robust engineering practices. The role emphasizes designing reliable services, scalable APIs, and tooling with a focus on high‑quality code, performance, and