Sr Application Engineer — IT Inventory Platform, IS&T

Apple, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental.cover

Retirement benefits

Apple employee stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Sr Application Engineer for the IT Inventory Platform within IS&T.

You will drive product direction, onboard teams, and collaborate with engineering to evolve a service that maps applications and services to infrastructure across data centers, compute facilities, and labs. You will work closely with internal customers, define a compelling roadmap, and lead enablement sessions while delivering practical integrations and improvements to the platform.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience combining technical depth with customer or product engagement.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure and platform engineering including data centers, cloud environments, networking, compute, and services built on top of them.
• Technical fluency to read/review code, write scripts/prototypes, work with APIs and data models, contribute to architecture discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust with customers, understand their needs deeply, and communicate solutions clearly.
• Strong product instincts to evaluate tradeoffs, assess impact, and prioritize on customer and business value.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technical related field, or international degree equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Customer Discovery and Advocacy: Build relationships with internal teams relying on IT inventory data and translate insights into product decisions.
• Product Roadmap Development: Define and prioritize roadmap based on feedback, usage data, and technical judgment.
• Technical Collaboration with Engineering: Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and tradeoff decisions with a product lens.
• Customer Onboarding: Own onboarding for new teams/users, configure solutions, develop docs, lead enablement sessions, ensure adoption.
• Ongoing Customer Support: Act as a trusted contact, triage issues, collect feedback, and close the loop with customers.
• Storytelling and Value Communication: Articulate business value of IT Inventory platform to leadership and partner organizations.

Skills

Solutions engineering

Technical product management

Application engineering

Customer engagement

APIs and data models

Architecture reviews

Education

BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or aTechnical related field

Job description

Sr Application Engineer — IT Inventory Platform, IS&T

Sunnyvale, California, United States Software and Services

The Asset Intelligence Platform is the consolidated registry that maps applications and services to their underlying infrastructure and dependencies across our data centers, compute facilities, and labs, spanning both internal and third-party environments. By aggregating data from dozens of integrations and discovery tools, it forms the information backbone for operational excellence, IT service management, software asset management, and critical security, privacy, and compliance programs. In any large, evolving infrastructure, visibility is the foundation for everything that follows. Teams responsible for security, compliance, and reliability depend on accurate, comprehensive insight into the environment to do their jobs effectively, and this platform delivers it. As the Application Engineer in this role, you won't just keep the system running—you'll help it evolve alongside the infrastructure and the stakeholders who rely on it.

Description

We are seeking an Application Engineer who operates at the intersection of customer need and engineering execution. In this role, you will develop a deep understanding of the problems internal customers face, translate those insights into product direction, onboard new teams onto the platform, support established users, and help stakeholders at every level understand the business value this system delivers. This is a role for someone who wants meaningful influence over both the what and the how of a product, and who values the people using a system as much as the system itself.

Responsibilities

• Customer Discovery and Advocacy Build strong relationships with the internal teams and business partners who depend on IT inventory data for security, compliance, operations, and planning. Understand their workflows, challenges, and goals, and ensure those insights inform every decision the engineering team makes.
• Product Roadmap Development Play a significant role in defining and prioritizing the product roadmap. Drawing on customer feedback, usage data, and your own technical judgment, help determine what the team builds next and ensure investments are aligned with the highest-impact opportunities.
• Technical Collaboration with Engineering Participate actively in design reviews, architectural discussions, and engineering tradeoff decisions. Bring a product lens to technical conversations by consistently grounding them in real customer problems. You should be comfortable reading and reviewing code, prototyping solutions, and building integrations when the situation calls for it.
• Customer Onboarding Own the end-to-end onboarding experience for new teams, users, and business partners. This includes assessing their requirements, configuring or tailoring solutions, developing documentation, leading enablement sessions, and ensuring successful adoption.
• Ongoing Customer Support Serve as a trusted point of contact for teams already using the platform. Triage issues, collect feedback, identify patterns that signal deeper systemic needs, and close the loop so customers know their input has been heard and acted upon.
• Storytelling and Value Communication Help the team articulate the business value of the IT Inventory platform to leadership, stakeholders, and partner organizations. Whether through a strategy document, a quarterly review, or a cross-functional presentation, make a clear and compelling case for the platform's impact and direction.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in a role combining technical depth with customer or product engagement, such as solutions engineering, technical product management, application engineering, or a comparable discipline
• Strong understanding of infrastructure and platform engineering, including data centers, cloud environments, networking, compute, and the services built on top of them
• Technical fluency sufficient to read and review code, write scripts or prototypes, work with APIs and data models, and contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions
• Demonstrated ability to build trust with customers, understand their needs deeply, and communicate solutions clearly
• Strong product instincts, including the ability to evaluate tradeoffs, assess impact, and prioritize based on customer and business value
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technical related field, or international degree equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with IT operations concepts such as asset management, configuration management, or CMDB tools
• Exposure to security, privacy, and compliance frameworks
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to operate effectively across a broad and evolving set of responsibilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences

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 $277,600, 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, and 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. Learn more about Apple Benefits Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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