Senior Platform Engineer, People Systems & AI-Driven Backend

Apple, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental cover

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineer) for G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE). You will shape a scalable, secure, and highly available configuration-driven platform with APIs, AI integration, and strong emphasis on quality and collaboration across teams.

You will drive architecture decisions, implement robust platform components, and ensure end-to-end reliability in a complex, enterprise environment at global scale.

Qualifications

• 8 years or more of professional software development.
• 6 years with Java or Kotlin, incl. concurrency, memory management.
• 8 years in OOP, data structures, algorithms, and GoF patterns.
• B.S. in CS, CE, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and own configuration-driven platform components end-to-end.
• Ensure safety and versioning of configurations with controlled rollout.
• Build security, tenancy and privacy into the platform.
• Develop event-driven services for high-concurrency multi-tenant workloads.
• Design APIs with versioning and contracts for cross-team use.
• Have components act as one system, fixing cross-cutting issues.
• Write tests and participate in code reviews to ensure quality.
• Diagnose distributed-systems issues and perform root-cause fixes.
• Operate what you ship with observability and on-call responsibility.
• Work AI-native: code with agents and validate outputs with tests.
• Automation: build tools for development tasks and AI-assisted workflows.
• API-driven services: secure, versioned microservices with lifecycle ops.
• CI/CD: automate testing, canary rollouts and rollbacks.
• Monitoring/Alerting: deep visibility and self-healing patterns.
• Build AI SDLC agents that generate/run tests and ensure quality gates.
• Contribute designs and collaborate with architects and product.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Concurrency

Memory management

Performance optimization

OOP

Backend design

Education

B.S. in CS/CE or related

Tools

Claude

Copilot

Codex

Job description

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineer) for G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE). You will shape a scalable, secure, and highly available configuration-driven platform with APIs, AI integration, and strong emphasis on quality and collaboration across teams.

You will drive architecture decisions, implement robust platform components, and ensure end-to-end reliability in a complex, enterprise environment at global scale.