Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Apple • Seattle, WA

3d

About The Position

At Apple AIML Evaluation, you will be part of a team that makes it possible for Apple engineers to innovate ML driven product features rapidly and at scale. The team’s large scale distributed Annotation platform enables current and future Apple intelligence products by generating high quality critical data that facilitates Apple Intelligence and other cutting edge ML technologies. The AIML Annotation Platform team provides frameworks and services for enabling effective data annotations across all of Apple, while protecting user privacy. As a member of the team, you’ll have the opportunity to work with the team of highly skilled engineers to build reliable backend systems.

Requirements

• MS in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, or related field
• Strong computer science fundamentals (system's design, OO, data structures and algorithms)
• Experience designing, building, maintaining, and extending production ecosystems at scale.
• Experience with server-side programming, particularly Java, Go, (Python a plus).
• Strong knowledge of database systems and data modeling, with hands-on experience across SQL, NoSQL, and OLAP data stores.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (preferably AWS) and hybrid ecosystems
• Experience with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code
• Experience shipping scalable micro services, distributed systems, web services and/or data streaming platforms at massive scale with high quality, high availability, high throughput and low latency.
• Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration and delivery.
• Track record of working hands-on with data — exploring it, finding signals, and surfacing what stakeholders should care about
• Ability to discuss technical tradeoffs across the stack, including system architecture, database design, API design and infrastructure.
• A learning attitude to continuously improve self and team.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to mentor other engineers and level up those around you.

Nice To Haves

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience preferred.
• Experience with data annotation platforms is a plus
• Experience with evaluation frameworks and data quality systems is a plus

Responsibilities

• Model great software engineering practices, by producing well tested, performant and reliable code to the multiple systems that we maintain.
• Engage in code review, pair programming and architecture discussions with other members of the team.
• Work cross functionally with other teams at Apple, to ensure our tools and systems integrate seamlessly.
• Write detailed architecture and design proposals.
• Constantly seek areas of improvement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior