Apple · 2 months ago
Staff Platform Engineer, Agents
Cupertino, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$212K/yr - $318K/yr
8+ years expApple is a leading technology company seeking a Platform Engineer with API and Infrastructure experience to focus on the creation, deployment, and reliability of AI Agents and MCP servers. The role involves collaborating with a talented team to design features and troubleshoot production issues, while also ensuring the performance of API endpoints.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Strong desire to document and test every part of the development and deployment process
Familiar with the entire stack as it relates to AI agents and MCP servers
Support and advance development environments to reduce friction when shipping to production
Plan, develop and shape new features by collaborating with product and dev as well as users and stakeholders
Review code and collaborate on pull requests with your team members
Identify and optimize API endpoint performance and MCP server bottlenecks that affect user workflows
Plan and upgrade the application technologies to avoid technical debt
Support the troubleshooting, mitigation and fixing of production issues involving our Applications, Databases, Networks and Proxies using Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Kibana, WireShark and other monitoring and debugging tools
Constantly learn and improve your own technical skills by reading code, documentation, running experiments and talking to your colleagues
Qualification
Required
8+ years Go (preferred), Python, or Typescript experience
8+ years experience deploying applications using Ansible, Docker, Jenkins or related tools
5+ years in a senior role working across the entire web stack with a skilled team
5+ years building robust HTTP API's and backend services
Preferred
Familiar with deploying services to bare metal and cloud environments
Experience instrumenting, deploying and maintaining ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, and/or Sentry is a plus
Manufacturing experience or exposure is a plus, but not required
A strong desire to produce high quality software through cross functional collaboration, testing, code reviews, and other best practices
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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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.67BKey Investors
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2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
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2021-04-30Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tim Cook
CEO
Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering
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