Senior Platform Engineer - People Systems & AI

Apple, Inc.; Austin (TX); Sur place; USD 150 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for its G&A Solutions Engineering team. You will shape the technical strategy for People Systems, focusing on a configuration-driven platform with versioned features and agentic workflows designed to scale securely.

Collaboration with product managers and cross-functional teams is essential to deeply understand problems and craft precise, scalable solutions that balance speed with long-term platform health.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in professional software development, strong in scalable systems.
• Expertise in Java or Kotlin with a focus on concurrency and performance.
• Proficient in OO design, data structures and design patterns (GoF).

Responsabilités

• Design, build and own a configuration-driven platform components from design to production.
• Ensure safe configuration changes with versioning, previews and controlled promotion.
• Incorporate security, tenancy and privacy into the platform from the ground up.
• Develop event-driven, high-concurrency, multi-tenant services.
• Define APIs with versioning and compatibility, reducing cross-team coordination.
• Coordinate interdependent components to behave as a single system across contracts.
• Assert correctness with tests and quality gates; participate in code reviews.
• Diagnose distributed-system issues to root cause fixes.
• Operate deployments with observability, zero-downtime releases, on-call participation.
• Leverage AI-native workflows; verify AI outputs with tests and reviews.
• Build automation tools to streamline development and performance tuning.
• Design secure, versioned microservices exposing lifecycle operations via APIs.
• Integrate CI/CD with automated testing, canaries, and rollback capabilities.
• Enhance monitoring and alerting; improve health visibility for platform and users.
• Develop AI SDLC agents to generate, run, triage and maintain tests.
• Collaborate with architects/product to transform ambiguous problems into clear specs.

Connaissances

Java / Kotlin

Concurrency mastery

Object-oriented design

Performance optimization

Description du poste

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for its G&A Solutions Engineering team. You will shape the technical strategy for People Systems, focusing on a configuration-driven platform with versioned features and agentic workflows designed to scale securely.

Collaboration with product managers and cross-functional teams is essential to deeply understand problems and craft precise, scalable solutions that balance speed with long-term platform health.