Senior Platform Engineer - Go, Kubernetes & Cloud APIs

Apple Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Employee stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Platform Engineer for Apple Pay to help design and operate the internal developer platform used by Wallet, Payments and Commerce teams.

You will design APIs, write production Go/Java/C++ code, and own the performance and correctness of multi-region systems that engineers rely on daily. This role emphasizes Kubernetes-native services, declarative infrastructure, robust testing, on-call reliability, and leveraging AI-powered tooling to ship

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating production backend or infrastructure systems.
• Strong programming ability in Go, or in Java, Kotlin, C++ or a comparable statically typed language, with solid fundamentals in API design, concurrency and error handling.
• A real testing practice. You write tests that would catch a regression rather than tests that restate the implementation.
• Distributed systems experience covering idempotency, eventual consistency, retries and partial failure, plus practical performance work where you profiled something and measured the fix.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and extensive cloud experience with at least one of the major cloud providers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including design documents and incident write-ups that other engineers can act on.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Kubernetes-native services, controllers and APIs in Go, owning each subsystem from design review through production operation.
• Turn complex infrastructure provisioning into simple declarative APIs, so application teams can describe what they need without having to manage the underlying complexity themselves.
• Make the platform fast and predictable at scale, and diagnose the performance and correctness problems that surface there, from hot loops and unbounded work queues to memory growth and convergence failures across regions.
• Raise the engineering bar through meaningful test coverage, code review that improves designs rather than syntax, and the observability you need to run what you build.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the systems you own, and turn each incident into a permanent fix or a guardrail rather than a runbook entry.
• Work AI-forward by using coding agents and LLM-based tooling as a normal part of development, and own the correctness of what you ship regardless of what drafted it.

Skills

Backend infrastructure

Go/Java/C++ proficiency

Testing practices

Distributed systems

APIs design fundamentals

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Jsonnet

Kustomize

CUE

Pkl

Job description

Apple Inc. in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Platform Engineer for Apple Pay to help design and operate the internal developer platform used by Wallet, Payments and Commerce teams.

You will design APIs, write production Go/Java/C++ code, and own the performance and correctness of multi-region systems that engineers rely on daily. This role emphasizes Kubernetes-native services, declarative infrastructure, robust testing, on-call reliability, and leveraging AI-powered tooling to ship