Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineer), G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE)

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

Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineer), G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE)

Sunnyvale, California, United States Software and Services

G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE) is IS&T's dedicated technology partner for Apple's general and administrative functions — including people, finance, facilities, legal, and security. The team builds and delivers integrated technology solutions that keep these functions running efficiently and securely at global scale. GSE also works closely with business teams to develop custom tools that improve productivity and bring greater automation and consistency to G&A operations across Apple.

Description

When you engineer for People Systems, your users are Apple’s most vital asset: its People. We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the technical strategy for People Systems with a passion for platforms where configuration is the product, and agentic workflows that redefine what's possible.You will be working on a Platform that helps define features. Data models, rules, workflows, permissions, screens and reports are all versioned configuration, interpreted at runtime, so the people closest to a problem can change how the system behaves without waiting for a release. Hundreds of components must behave as one system. We are looking for a passionate engineer who can make that true.We value engineers who bring both technical excellence and product thinking. You'll make the architectural calls that balance fast delivery against long-term platform health, and build systems that are scalable, secure and resilient by design rather than by retrofit.This role requires someone who thrives on complexity but ships simplicity.Collaboration is central to how we work. You’ll partner with product managers and cross-functional engineering teams to understand problems deeply before reaching for solutions. The best engineers here are the ones who ask “why” before “how.” If you care deeply about precision, data integrity, and crafting platforms where scale meets human empathy, come join us to do the best work of your life.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and own components of a configuration-driven platform, from design to production, hands-on, growing from well-scoped components to whole services
• Make configuration safe to change: validated, versioned and previewable before release, with controlled promotion across environments and rollback
• Build security, tenancy and privacy into the platform itself, so that unsafe access is impossible rather than left to caller discipline
• Build event-driven services that handle high-concurrency, multi-tenant workloads reliably
• Design APIs and contracts with clear versioning and compatibility checks, so consuming teams can build without coordination overhead
• Help interdependent components behave as one system, respecting boundaries and contracts, and fixing issues that span components
• Own correctness: write the tests that prove it, build quality gates into the delivery pipeline so every change, whether written by a person or an agent, is verified before it ships, and take part in code review
• Diagnose and fix distributed-systems issues through to a root-cause fix
• Operate what you ship: build observability in, deploy without downtime, and take a share of on-call
• Work AI-natively: build with coding agents in an orchestrated workflow and verify their output with tests and review
• Automation Development: Design and build tools to streamline development tasks and performance tuning. Integrate AI/ML capabilities into areas like intelligent configuration recommendations, workload-aware scheduling, and LLM-powered interfaces that simplify complex operator workflows
• API-Driven Services: Design, build, and maintain secure, versioned microservices that expose application lifecycle operations as APIs. Ensure correctness under concurrent execution, handle partial failures gracefully, and evolve the API surface to support new capabilities without breaking existing consumers
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Integrate application management automation into CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, canary rollouts, and rollback capabilities
• Monitoring and Alerting: Develop and enhance monitoring, alerting, and health-check systems that give both the platform team and customers deep visibility into application health. Build self-healing mechanisms that detect and remediate known failure patterns automatically
• Build agents for the AI SDLC that generate, run, triage and maintain tests, and the automation and quality gates around them
• Contribute designs and reference implementations, and partner with architects and product to turn ambiguous problems into clear specs

Minimum Qualifications

• 8 years proven experience developing software in a professional capacity. Longer experience strongly preferred.
• 6 years proven experience with Java or Kotlin, including mastery in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization techniques.
• 8 years proven mastery in OOP principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns (e.g. GoF), with a proven focus on implementing testable, maintainable, and extensible backend code.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record of leading software projects that span multiple, distributed teams as a tech lead (TL), while mentoring senior-level software engineers.
• Hands-on experience leveraging GenAI coding tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, Codex) to accelerate the software development lifecycle, enhance code quality, and streamline debugging and testing processes.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $184,700 and $324,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

You’ll also receive benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• A range of discounted products and free services
• for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
• Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation

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