Senior Software Engineer - Frameworks Engineering

Overview

Summary - Imagine what you could do here. The people here at Apple don’t just build products — we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.

The Apple Services Engineering Server (ASE) Frameworks Team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries.

These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple’s outstanding integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep dedication to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’s core values.

Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and multi-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.

The ASE Server Frameworks team is responsible for providing both frameworks and reference examples for Java applications and services that various ASE engineering teams build on top of. The team delivers reliable, well-tested, and well-documented frameworks that enable teams to build scalable, production-ready services. Like widely used open-source frameworks, these APIs and frameworks must carefully consider backward compatibility, upgrade paths, transitive dependencies, and dependency management.

As the platform evolves and modernizes, the team continuously revises existing frameworks and introduces new ones as appropriate. In this role, you will work with a team of experienced Java engineers and architects to execute against a feature backlog and long-term roadmap. The frameworks developed by this team incorporate ASE standard methodologies and provide foundational support for critical service capabilities such as logging, metrics and statistics collection, distributed tracing, and other core infrastructure concerns.

• Drive projects from inception and design through production deployment, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop and maintain secure, end-to-end server-side solutions for commerce, taxation, accounting, and reporting systems.
• Add new integrations, scale existing data flows, and re-architect systems to support evolving features and architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, design solutions, and deliver high-quality features.
• Take ownership of projects, set technical direction, and execute independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Measure, profile, and optimize system performance to ensure a seamless purchase and subscription experience. Uphold Apple’s core values by strengthening privacy-first design through thoughtful and responsible engineering.

• Strong object-oriented programming experience (primarily Java).
• Expert knowledge of build and dependency management tools such as Maven and Gradle (Bazel a bonus).
• Excellent understanding of the software development lifecycle, including version control, code reviews, testing practices, and code quality tools.
• Passionate about creating developer tools and services that improve the quality of life for other engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience scaling, deploying, and operating distributed services using modern cloud technologies, including containers and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying services to production environments.
• Experience troubleshooting…