Senior Software Engineer - FaceTime and SharePlay, Vision Products Software

Apple • Sunnyvale, CA

12d

About The Position

The Vision Products Group is seeking a senior technical leader to help define spatial communication on Apple Vision Pro and across Apple platforms. The role is a hands-on engineering architect position spanning spatial FaceTime, Spatial Personas, SharePlay, and sharing with nearby people, from session-managing system services to real-time synchronization and developer APIs.

The engineer will tackle problems spanning multiple teams, prototype and write code, and turn discoveries into durable architectural improvements. The work includes developing technologies for collaboration in person and remotely, building on Apple’s networking and conferencing infrastructure, and ensuring distributed state remains correct across participants, devices, processes, operating-system versions, and network conditions. The role also drives designs with partner teams, serves as a technical contact for app teams adopting SharePlay, and mentors engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience building system-level frameworks, services, or daemons that shipped in production.
• Proven experience leading the architecture of a distributed or multi-process system, including state synchronization, consistency, and failure handling.
• Expert proficiency in Swift, including modern concurrency (async/await, actors, Sendable, and structured concurrency).
• Working proficiency in Objective-C.
• Experience designing inter-process communication and reliable, secure system services.
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex, intermittent issues across multiple processes or devices.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction across multiple teams without direct management authority.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with real-time communication or collaboration technologies.
• Experience with CRDTs, replicated-data synchronization, or peer-to-peer and proximity-based networking.
• Experience with visionOS, RealityKit, ARKit, or spatial computing.
• Experience shipping public APIs and engaging with third-party developers.
• Experience maintaining backwards compatibility and replacing legacy systems in non-disruptive ways.
• Experience using AI-assisted and agentic coding tools to accelerate development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with comfort serving as the technical point of contact for many partner teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for spatial FaceTime and SharePlay on Apple Vision Pro and across Apple platforms.
• Architect and implement solutions to complex problems that span multiple teams, including prototyping and writing code.
• Turn engineering findings into durable architectural improvements.
• Develop technologies for collaborative experiences, building on Apple’s networking and conferencing infrastructure.
• Design systems that maintain consistent shared content and interactions across participants, devices, processes, OS versions, and network conditions.
• Drive technical designs with partner teams across Apple.
• Serve as a technical contact for app teams adopting SharePlay.
• Mentor engineers and build lasting technical depth across the team.

What This Job Offers

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