Senior Software Engineer, AI Inference Asset Delivery Platform

Apple • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Join Apple Service Engineering (ASE), which builds and provides the systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services and enable Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute in the cloud. This Senior Software Engineer will lead the shift from repository-based asset intake to a service-oriented platform that delivers client assets to server nodes across Apple data centers.

The role owns the end-to-end asset integration pipeline, from client teams to server nodes. Responsibilities include transitioning repository-based workflows to microservices and RESTful APIs, owning package builds and build-team automation, providing storage endpoints, and maintaining dashboards and alerts that keep the pipeline healthy. The engineer will partner with client teams building on Large Language Models and should bring working fluency in machine-learning concepts. The role calls for a systems thinker who can navigate fast-moving requirements while maintaining a long-term vision for resilient, scalable solutions.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Expert-level proficiency with programming languages such as Python or Java.
• Experience with production web services and RESTful API design.
• Experience designing and operating microservices, including services running across multiple data centers, and the ability to reason about scale, concurrency, and failure modes.
• Proven experience designing and implementing internal tools, automation, and service-level components.
• Foundational understanding of machine-learning and LLM concepts sufficient to work effectively with client teams.
• Ability to collaborate closely across teams and influence decisions through clarity, empathy, and technical depth.
• Comfort working in dynamic, fast-changing environments and creating structure.
• Experience building monitoring dashboards and alerting for services owned.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Working familiarity with containerization, such as Docker.
• Experience with artifact registries, package managers, or object storage.
• Prior experience migrating a legacy workflow to a service-oriented architecture.
• Proficiency in complementary languages such as C/C++, Shell, or SQL.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transition from repository-based asset intake to a service-oriented platform.
• Own the end-to-end asset integration pipeline that moves assets from client teams to server nodes across Apple data centers.
• Build and integrate microservices and RESTful APIs for asset delivery.
• Own package builds and build-team automation.
• Provide storage endpoints.
• Maintain dashboards and alerts for the health of the pipeline.
• Partner with client teams building on Large Language Models.
• Design and operate production systems and services across multiple data centers.
• Build monitoring dashboards and alerting for services owned.

What This Job Offers

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