Sr. Software Development Engineer, AI & Data Platforms (AiDP)

Apple Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
4 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Cloud Engineering Continuous Integration DevOps Distributed Systems Fault Tolerance Node.Js NoSQL Performance Tuning Software Engineering
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SQL Databases TypeScript ReactJS Large Language Models Concurrency Backend Event Driven Architecture Build Management Kubernetes Information Technology Apache Flink Apache Kafka Data Management Stream Processing Data Pipelines Docker Microservices

Job description

The role will design and build core platform capabilities - from high-throughput data pipelines for business automation to AI-powered insights and agentic automation to the interfaces that put them in users’ hands. You own your products through the full lifecycle: shipping new features, triaging and resolving critical production issues, and ensuring operational health. You will provide technical leadership on architecture, engineering standards, and technology choices, and partner closely with product and design to ensure what we build actually moves the needle.

Requirements

  • 10+ years building and scaling production-grade full-stack and backend services using Node.js, ReactJS, TypeScript, and Java.
  • Experience with Kafka and Flink for event-driven architectures, real-time stream processing, and distributed systems.
  • Experience building AI-powered products, including LLM integration, agentic workflows, NLP pipelines, and intelligent automation.
  • Hands-on with cloud-native stack: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
  • Proficient with SQL and NoSQL databases at scale
  • BS in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience., * Experience with microservices, system design, scalability, fault tolerance, concurrency, and performance optimization.
  • Solid CI/CD and DevOps practices
  • Proven ability to deliver end-to-end product features with a product-owner mindset and focus on user/business outcomes.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clean, scalable technical designs
  • Strong communicator who collaborates naturally across engineering, product, and stakeholders
  • Passion for quality, attention to detail and internationalization

About the company

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.

AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) is IS&T’s engine for AI-powered innovation. The team brings together data, application development, and machine learning - including generative AI - along with data services and customer success functions, to help IS&T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple.

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