Senior On-Device Data Systems Engineer Privacy-First

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Intelligence Platform Data Foundations, Proactive.

You will design and optimize on-device data persistence and synchronization to support personalized context across Apple devices while ensuring privacy. You’ll work across OS stack, solving indexing and processing challenges at scale and partnering with ML teams to integrate entity data into the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in at least one compiled language (C/C++/Objective-C, Swift, Go, Java, Rust, or similar).
• Experience with backend and systems-level programming, including concurrency and multi-threaded software design.
• Experience building production data infrastructure such as databases, storage, serialization, or synchronization systems.
• Ability to write reliable, resilient, performant, and well-tested code, with skills in debugging and technical communication gained through delivering production software on large engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize on-device data persistence and synchronization systems across iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
• Solve large-scale indexing and data-processing challenges with performant, resource-efficient solutions across the full stack.
• Partner with machine learning and feature teams to onboard named entities and user-behavior data streams into the platform, upholding strong-typing best practices and Apple's privacy standards.
• Diagnose and resolve correctness, performance, and reliability issues with foundational system services in a distributed, multi-device environment.
• Provide design guidance and technical expertise to partner engineering teams across the company.

Skills

Concurrency

Backend development

Systems programming

Debugging

Technical communication

Education

CS degree

Tools

C/C++/Objective-C

Swift

Go

Java

Rust

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Intelligence Platform Data Foundations, Proactive.

You will design and optimize on-device data persistence and synchronization to support personalized context across Apple devices while ensuring privacy. You’ll work across OS stack, solving indexing and processing challenges at scale and partnering with ML teams to integrate entity data into the platform.