Sr. Software Engineer, Enterprise Technology Services (Forge)

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, ship, and operate the Forge platform, turning ambiguous, high-impact needs into secure and scalable products and integrations used by ETS engineering teams. Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and partner engineers, and help define how AI agents work alongside engineers in production.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, plus at least five years of professional software development experience. Candidates should have full-stack experience, production ownership, secure and scalable design skills, hands-on observability experience, and experience building an LLM- or agent-based feature.

Skills

• Full-Stack Software Engineering
• Java
• Spring Boot
• React
• Angular
• Python
• LLM and Agent Development
• REST API Design
• Secure Software Design
• Scalable Systems
• Observability
• Relational Databases
• PostgreSQL
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Kubernetes

About this role

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise
and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems
and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple
does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central
nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions
of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life
running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love
building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what
you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary
products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to
your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. That same passion for
innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices,
strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it! Most
software engineering roles hand off testing to one team and operations to
another. Here you own all of it. As a Software Engineer on Forge, you'll design,
build, test, ship, and run the platform Apple's engineering teams build on,
working closely with those teams to find where the infrastructure beneath them
gets in the way and fixing it. Forge is part of Enterprise Technology Services
(ETS), within Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization,
the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who
build for them. Forge is building the platform Apple's engineering organizations
can use to take a service from code to running in production. That path has
traditionally run through a series of separate specialist systems. We are
bringing it together on a common platform with a shared core, so a team goes
from allocated capacity to a live production service without assembling the
pieces themselves. Our job is to get teams to production quickly, on a platform
that stays secure and reliable without them having to think about it. Our
charter is deliberately wide and still growing, reaching from the physical fleet
in the data center to the surfaces engineering teams build against, and
extending into new environments and new classes of infrastructure as Apple's
needs evolve. We are a small team with outsized reach, bringing an AI-first
mindset to how the platform operates and improves itself, and the best work we
do takes one team's hardest problem and turns it into a capability every team
inherits.

DESCRIPTION

You will work with product owners, infrastructure owners, and partner engineers
to turn ambiguous, high-impact problems into clean solutions. You'll own
products that ETS teams depend on every day. You will also help define how AI
agents work in production alongside humans, in the same codebases our engineers
ship to daily. The role mixes product engineering with hands-on integration
work. You may start closer to one than the other, and you should be comfortable
moving between them as the work changes. We are looking for strong full-stack
engineers who have owned work through production, have built something with LLMs
or agents, can design securely and for scale, and want to grow into leading
designs and mentoring others.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or
equivalent professional experience 5+ years of professional software
development, with a track record of owning features or integrations through
production Full-stack experience: a backend language such as Java (Spring Boot
or similar) and a modern web UI framework such as React or Angular Experience
designing features with security principles (threat modeling, authentication and
authorization, least privilege, secure data handling) and scalable patterns
(stateless services, caching, asynchronous messaging, retries, circuit breakers,
back-pressure), and explaining your trade-offs in design reviews Have built an
LLM- or agent-based feature, whether in production, as a prototype, or as a
significant project, and can describe how you designed it and evaluated its
reliability Strong fundamentals in data structures, design patterns, REST API
design, and relational databases Hands-on observability experience:
instrumenting applications with metrics, logs, and traces, and building
dashboards and alerts A record of learning new technologies quickly, working
through ambiguity, and communicating clearly across teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Shipped agentic features to production, including tool integrations, retrieval
pipelines, evaluation, and guardrails - Python, including LLM APIs or agent
frameworks - Daily use of GenAI coding tools (Claude, Copilot, Codex) to speed
up development, testing, and debugging - Schema design, query optimization, and
performance tuning on PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MySQL - Data modeling and
reconciliation across multiple sources, including data-quality measurement - Web
accessibility (WCAG) and building accessible enterprise UIs - CI/CD, Docker,
Kubernetes, and cloud or virtualization platforms - Secure software practices:
security design reviews, dependency and vulnerability management, compliance -
Experience leading a project or mentoring other engineers, and contributing to
inner-source or open-source projects

About Apple

Computers and Electronics Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees · headquartered in Cupertino, California · founded 1976