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# Sr. Java Engineer - Media Platforms

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $171,600.0 - $302,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon S3, Gradle, Identity and Access Management, JSON, Apache Maven, Object-Oriented Software Development, Systems Integration, TCP/IP, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Grpc, Microservices
- **Published:** May 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=09fcb53833685a26

## About the Role

Do you have experience in gRPC?, Experience with Cassandra & CQL

Detailed understanding of S3 & IAM APIs

Understanding of TCP/IP, networking, and maximizing transfer throughput of very large files

Practical use of Claude Code for design, review, automation, and implementation

Experience with JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)

Experience with Kafka, Flink, and/or Pulsar

Minimum Qualifications

Demonstrated technical leadership skills, including uncovering and understanding requirements, system integration design, and cross-team collaboration

Fluency in Java and related tooling, such as Bazel, Gradle, Maven

API design and implementation using both JSON and GRPC

Expertise in data modeling & object-oriented programming

Knowledge of cryptographic APIs and proper use of cryptographic primitives

Understanding of authentication and authorization fundamentals

Protocol-level understanding of HTTP

Experience with Spark

## Description

The Apple Services Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Asset Management team. We are responsible for storing, protecting, and delivering the many petabytes of files used by the content import, management, processing, and distribution systems. Our systems store, track, protect, and deliver every app, song, movie, and video - both streamed and downloaded., You will be working with a small, focused team to design, build, maintain, deploy, support, and enhance new and existing micro-services responsible for the management and protection of content assets within the Apple Services Engineering organization. This includes the development, maintenance, and support various Java client libraries (using HTTP, REST, JSON, and/or GRPC).

We collaborate closely with other teams across Apple to integrate our systems with theirs, and we also perform direct integration with various legacy codebases. Most of our systems have direct customer impact, so curiosity and attention to detail are critical to success.


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