Senior Platform Architect – People Systems (AI-Driven)

Apple, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 263,000 - 394,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple seeks a visionary Application Architect to shape People Systems, overseeing platforms where configuration is the product. You will balance fast delivery with long-term health, leading AI-native SDLC and agent orchestration across scalable services.

You will architect for reliability, data integrity, and privacy, partnering with product managers and cross-functional teams to set standards and guide platform evolution at scale.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional software engineering in system or solution architecture for large-scale enterprise systems.
• Experience leading a configuration-driven platform used by multiple engineering teams.
• Proficiency across multiple tech stacks with judgements on guarantees for each component.
• Deep expertise in event-driven and event-sourced architectures.
• Spring Boot and microservices patterns with async programming.
• Cloud-native production experience on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AI-native SDLC and agent orchestration frameworks.
• Ability to translate business requirements into architectural designs and communicate trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Architect configurations-first applications and feed platform gaps as concrete requirements.
• Design core patterns: canonical document model, saga orchestration, and separation of facts from decisions.
• Ensure data integrity, privacy, and high availability across large-scale domains.
• Own end-to-end system design for new business initiatives.
• Design and evolve APIs with versioning for many consuming teams.
• Lead modular, domain-driven services on Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, and cloud-native infra.
• Advance AI-native SDLC and agent orchestration across platforms.
• Define reliability with SLOs, observability, incident response, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Mentor engineers and promote architectural standards and platform blueprints.

Skills

Platform architecture

Java

Kotlin

Spring Boot

Cloud-native

AI-native SDLC

Agent orchestration

Event-driven design

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Relational/NoSQL databases

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Apple seeks a visionary Application Architect to shape People Systems, overseeing platforms where configuration is the product. You will balance fast delivery with long-term health, leading AI-native SDLC and agent orchestration across scalable services.

You will architect for reliability, data integrity, and privacy, partnering with product managers and cross-functional teams to set standards and guide platform evolution at scale.