Platform Engineer Jobs in Cupertino, CA

Summary

Do you love building the platforms that other engineers depend on to do their best work? Do you want to make deploying an application, from a first preview to production, a one-minute, self-service step instead of a ticket and a wait? As part of our Deployment Platform team in Apple Services Engineering, you'll help build a unified platform to deploy and run applications on demand. You'll write production Go code every day, designing the APIs, control plane, and services that other engineers build on, and you'll work on problems at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems. Your work will be used by thousands of engineers across Apple every day.

Description

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Deployment Platform team. Our mission is to create paved paths for developers to deploy and run their applications through one consistent, self-service experience. Deploying an application is something developers do many times a day, and we aim to make it fast, reliable, and effortless. Our platform gives developers instant, production-like environments to run, preview, and validate their changes, and a smooth path from there to production. You'll collaborate across Apple, taking projects from design through implementation and operations, with a bias toward simple, high-quality, developer-friendly solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience building production software
• Strong programming skills in Go, with experience delivering high-quality, concurrent, well-tested services
• Solid foundation in software architecture, system design, and problem solving
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architecture, including reconciliation loops, idempotency, eventual consistency, and failure handling, and with distributed data stores and messaging systems (e.g., Cassandra, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Kafka, Redis)
• Hands-on experience extending Kubernetes, such as writing controllers or operators and CRDs with client-go or controller-runtime
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, TCP/HTTP, TLS, load balancing, ingress, egress, and network policy
• Experience designing and building REST, gRPC, and/or GraphQL APIs
• Ability to design, build, test, and run the services you own, from API design through production
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building developer platforms, internal PaaS, or SDKs and tools used by other engineers
• Experience with Java and/or Python, in addition to Go
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Self-motivated and well-organized, with a demonstrated ability to take ownership and drive ambiguous projects to completion
• Fluency with AI-assisted software development (coding assistants and agents), and exposure to building AI-powered developer tooling
• Experience with data modeling, schema evolution, and tuning for both relational and NoSQL datastores, including transactions, consistency trade-offs, and capacity planning
• Familiarity with service identity, secrets management, and secure multi-tenant design
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud networking, such as ingress and egress controllers, service mesh, CNI, or Gateway API, across multi-cluster, hybrid-cloud, or ephemeral cluster environments, and with debugging networking issues across layers (DNS, TLS, proxies, load balancers)
• Experience with object storage (S3-compatible), CDNs or edge routing, and static or dynamic web hosting
• Experience with observability: metrics, logging, tracing, and SLOs
• Some experience building web UIs with React or a similar modern framework (TypeScript/JavaScript, component-based design, consuming REST/GraphQL APIs)
• Familiarity with public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP) and declarative, GitOps-style delivery
• Familiarity with containers and container image build and distribution
• Familiarity with virtualization and VM workloads alongside containers
• Kubernetes application developer certification (CKAD)

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 $150,400 and $225,300, 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

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Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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