Senior Platform Engineer - Go, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Apple; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple's Data Engineering Platform (DEP) team seeks a Senior Platform Software Engineer to own core platform systems end-to-end, including APIs, services, schemas, configurations, pipelines, and telemetry. You will blend hands-on coding with platform-wide thinking to shape the technical direction the platform follows.

You will design and operate core Go services, manage versioning and immutability, define deployment contracts and Kubernetes topology, and drive operational excellence for critical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, focusing on platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing systems.
• Strong Go, shipping, and operating production backend services and CLI tools.
• Deep Kubernetes experience: Helm, environment layering, probes, scaling, policies.
• CI/CD pipelines ownership including promotions and automated rollback.
• Solid relational databases fundamentals and migrations in services you operate.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and Go concurrency.
• Experience owning production services, on-call, telemetry, and incident follow-through.
• Experience authoring reusable AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code or Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the Go services at the heart of the platform, and shape the declarative interface engineers build against.
• Own versioning and immutability as a platform concern - artifact publication, signing, semantic versioning, and dependency pinning.
• Define how services ship on the platform: deployment contract, environment promotion, and Kubernetes topology for platform services and partners.
• Drive operational excellence for a foundational P1 service: SLOs, trusted alerting, release provenance, and availability/rollback posture as adoption grows.
• Own the developer experience: CLI, scaffolding, APIs, and docs; run onboarding and gather feedback for improvements.
• Set technical direction: define engineering standards, mentor engineers, and scale AI-assisted development practices.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Database fundamentals

Production ownership

AI-assisted development tools

Incident response

CLI tooling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

OpenTelemetry

PostgreSQL

CockroachDB

Helm

Job description

Apple's Data Engineering Platform (DEP) team seeks a Senior Platform Software Engineer to own core platform systems end-to-end, including APIs, services, schemas, configurations, pipelines, and telemetry. You will blend hands-on coding with platform-wide thinking to shape the technical direction the platform follows.

You will design and operate core Go services, manage versioning and immutability, define deployment contracts and Kubernetes topology, and drive operational excellence for critical