Apple · 4 months ago
Sr Software Engineer, Employee Experience & Productivity
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$181K/yr - $318K/yr
10+ years expApple is seeking a passionate Sr. Software Backend Engineer to create exceptional user experiences and scalable, well-architected solutions that drive their business forward. The role involves owning the end-to-end backend architecture and integrating with enterprise identity and policy for compliance and performance during peak events.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Digital MediaElectronicsMedia and EntertainmentAppsBroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end backend architecture: ingest, live/VOD encoding orchestration, packaging/manifest services, DRM/entitlements, playback APIs, and multi-region failover
Integrate with enterprise identity and policy: SSO (OIDC/SAML), audit trails, and policy enforcement for compliance and least-privilege
Engineer for peak events: capacity modeling, autoscaling, load shedding, graceful degradation, and DR playbooks that sustain company-wide concurrency spikes. Optimize delivery for enterprise networks: internal CDNs/edge caches, multi-CDN strategies, VPN-aware routing, caching, and bandwidth efficiency
Build reusable platform abstractions and APIs that enable comms, HR/training, and product teams to publish, schedule, and measure content safely and reliably. Partner with Security, IT/Networking, Client/Player, Data/Analytics, Compliance/Legal, and Comms to align roadmap and ensure policy, privacy, and accessibility (captions/ASR) are first-class
Lead incident response for live events; drive postmortems and systemic reliability improvements
Make build-vs-buy decisions and vendor integrations where appropriate; negotiate SLAs and own total cost of ownership
Mentor engineers, lead design reviews/RFCs, and elevate engineering standards across teams
Qualification
Required
Technical degree or equivalent experience building large-scale distributed backends
10+ years building large-scale distributed backend systems
8+ years of Java & API development
5+ years of end-to-end live/VOD pipelines & video protection
Preferred
Deep experience with fault-tolerant distributed systems, multi-region architectures, idempotency, backpressure, and resiliency patterns (circuit breaking, bulkheads). Containers, orchestration, and IaC: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform (or equivalent)
Cloud proficiency (AWS): compute, networking, IAM, object storage; strong cost-awareness and capacity planning
AWS media services, such as AWS Live & AWS Media Package
Datastores and messaging: SQL and NoSQL (e.g., Oracle, DynamoDB, MongoDB), caching (Redis), and streams (Kafka/Pub/Sub)
Enterprise identity and security: OAuth2/OIDC/SAML, RBAC/ABAC, token-based auth, encryption in transit/at rest, auditing. Strong observability and operational excellence: metrics/logs/traces (OpenTelemetry), SLI/SLO/error budgets, on-call and incident management
Codecs/containers (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1; MP4/fMP4) and live ingest protocols (SRT, RIST, RTMP)
CDN and edge: internal cache hierarchy, multi-CDN switching, token auth, and cache-control for enterprise networks
Accessibility and compliance: captions, translations, WCAG; knowledge governance, eDiscovery/legal hold
Data/analytics for QoE and engagement; familiarity with Hadoop/Ozone is a plus
Automation to reduce operational toil; practical use of GenAI to boost developer productivity within security constraints
Zero Trust networking concepts, device posture/attestation, and MDM integration
Experience with end-to-end live/VOD pipelines: ingest, transcode orchestration, ABR ladders, HLS/DASH packaging/manifests
Experience with enterprise video protection: DRM, entitlement/authorization
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
10001+ employees
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