Software Platform Engineer

Apple • San Diego, CA

67d

About The Position

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll help drive the modernization of persistence systems that must handle multi-gigabyte projects with real-time responsiveness. You will be a technical contributor within the team while collaborating across Apple’s creative applications ecosystem. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who thrives on solving complex problems at the intersection of high-performance computing and creative technology.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in application or platform-level development, with a focus on persistence frameworks and system design.
• Deep experience with Core Data or similar persistence technologies, including schema migrations and domain modeling.
• Mastery of Swift concurrency patterns and seamless Objective-C interoperability.
• Solid understanding of multi-threaded programming, synchronization, and memory management in modern Apple environments.
• Experience with unit testing, continuous integration, and engineering best practices.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical ideas clearly and work collaboratively in a multi-functional team.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with media applications, graphics applications, video editing tools, or creative software workflows.
• Understanding of Apple frameworks such as AVFoundation, Core Animation, AppKit/UIKit.
• Experience working in large, legacy codebases with incremental modernization goals.
• Experience with Micro Services Architecture and Distributed Systems.
• Knowledge of data migration strategies and performance tuning for I/O-bound systems.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees