JobsSenior Frontend Web Platform Engineer - Apple Services Engineering
Senior Frontend Web Platform Engineer - Apple Services Engineering
AppleSenior Frontend Web Platform Engineer - Apple Services Engineering
AppleLocation
Seattle, WA
Type
Full-time
Posted
5/5/2026
Compensation
Not listed
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
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·FY 2025Job description
As a Senior Web Platform Engineer at Apple, you will be responsible for building APIs and shared capabilities that empower product teams across the organization. This role focuses on enhancing the developer experience and ensuring high-quality, reliable web platforms. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership and product teams to define standards for an enterprise-grade shared web platform. Your work will significantly impact the quality and velocity of software delivery at Apple.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on front-end or full-stack web platform engineering at scale.
- Strong track record designing developer-facing client APIs that are versioned, ergonomic, backward-compatible, and well-documented.
- Proven experience building shared web platforms consumed by multiple internal product teams.
- Expert-level knowledge of modern JavaScript/TypeScript and web performance optimization techniques.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for producing clear architectural proposals and documentation.
- Solid experience with observability tooling and practices, including distributed tracing and structured logging.
- Deep understanding of web authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0 and SAML.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and build tooling.
- Genuine enthusiasm for agentic engineering and experience with AI agents.
- Experience with micro-frontend architectures and multi-tenant web application patterns.
- Familiarity with edge computing and server-side rendering strategies.
- Experience with accessibility standards at the platform level.
- Background in e-commerce or enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source developer tooling.
- Familiarity with platform engineering concepts.
Responsibilities
- Build APIs and shared capabilities for product teams across Apple.
- Enhance the developer experience and ensure high-quality contracts.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership and product teams to define platform standards.
- Raise the quality and velocity of software delivery across the organization.
- Implement observability practices and tooling for production systems.
- Design and maintain secure authentication infrastructure.
- Evolve and maintain platform delivery infrastructure using CI/CD systems.
- Contribute to the development of shared components and tooling for accessibility compliance.
- Engage in agentic engineering practices to accelerate the software development lifecycle.
Benefits
- Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.
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