Forward Deployed Software Engineer Platforms Engineering, Enterprise Technology Services

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world Join Apples Information Systems and Technology (ISu0026T) organization. ISu0026T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. Its Apples 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 ISu0026T makes the impossible feel you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale Imagine what you could do here. nnAt Apple new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products services and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job and theres 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!nnMost 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 youll design build test ship and run the platform Apples engineering teams build on working closely with those teams to find where the infrastructure beneath them gets in the way and fixing is part of Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) within Apples Information Systems and Technology (ISu0026T) organization the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. Forge is building the platform Apples 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 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 Apples 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 teams hardest problem and turns it into a capability every team inherits.

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer you will embed with the engineering teams who use our platforms then build the software that solves their problems. This is a software engineering-first role that goes well beyond feature development: you will sit with a customer team to understand their applications and workflows translate ambiguous requirements into a technical design write the production code integrate it with existing systems and stay with it through deployment and operational readiness. We run what we build so you will also share an on-call rotation for the services the team owns which is the fastest way to learn where the platform still falls work spans Go backend services React and TypeScript applications REST and gRPC APIs distributed systems and automation that reaches into public cloud private cloud Kubernetes virtual machines and bare-metal environments. You will also build AI-assisted capabilities LLM integrations and agentic workflows along with the evaluations and quality controls that make those capabilities measurable and trustworthy enough to run in will move comfortably from a technical discussion with an engineering customer to designing a solution writing the code and validating that it works reliably at scale. You will approach loosely defined problems with curiosity and sound judgement and you will know when a recurring customer request should become a reusable platform capability rather than another one-off integration. You care about clean maintainable code thoughtful architecture and operational reliability and you are as motivated by simplifying an existing system as by building a new a team with daring goals and real autonomy you will take utmost ownership of what you ship and measure your success by the engineering problems you solve and the lasting improvements you leave behind in the platforms other teams build on.

Work directly with internal engineering teams to understand their applications infrastructure and workflows and translate what you learn into scalable maintainable softwarenDesign build and ship production software across Go backend services and React and TypeScript applications owning it from design through implementation testing deployment and iterationnArchitect and develop APIs distributed services integration frameworks and automation that connect applications infrastructure and enterprise systemsnBuild and extend REST and gRPC APIs including data modelling authentication authorization and API contractsnDesign for hybrid environments spanning public cloud private cloud Kubernetes virtual machines and bare-metal infrastructure balancing scalability security availability and operational complexitynDevelop AI-assisted capabilities using LLM APIs tool calling and agentic workflows to automate engineering infrastructure and operational tasksnEstablish evaluations automated tests and quality controls that make AI-driven features measurable and production-readynImprove deployment automation CI/CD pipelines and application lifecycle workflows that simplify software deliverynEngineer reliability into what you build through observability structured logging metrics tracing and resilient designnInvestigate complex issues across application infrastructure networking and distributed system boundaries and implement sustainable fixes rather than workaroundsnParticipate in the on-call rotation for services the team owns contributing to incident response and production reliabilitynTurn recurring customer challenges into reusable features shared services and standardized integrationsnCollaborate with multi-functional software infrastructure security networking and operations teamsnProduce clear technical documentation and architectural guidance and share engineering knowledge across teams

2-8 years of professional software engineering experience designing and delivering production softwarenStrong backend development skills in Go or in a comparable language such as Rust C or Python with the ability to become productive in GonSolid understanding of software architecture REST and gRPC APIs distributed applications and relational data modellingnHands-on experience with relational and distributed SQL databases such as PostgreSQL Oracle Aurora or CockroachDB including schema design migrations query performance and connection managementnStrong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP subnetting routing TLS and DNS record types together with practical load balancing experience across L4 and L7 health checks session affinity and DNS-based global traffic management such as Route 53 or an equivalentnExperience with a major cloud provider such as AWS GCP or AliCloud across compute storage networking load balancing and identity and access managementnWorking knowledge of Linux including systemd processes filesystems permissions and command-line troubleshootingnUnderstanding of service-to-service authentication and transport security including mTLS PKI and certificate lifecycle OIDC and RBACnFamiliarity with software delivery practices including source control automated testing CI/CD pipelines and production deploymentsnExperience operating services in production including observability with metrics logs and traces incident response and root-cause analysisnDemonstrated technical leadership on multi-team projects driving alignment influencing partner teams and raising the engineering bar around younAbility to work from loosely defined requirements evaluate implementation options and choose a practical path forwardnOutstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work directly with engineering customer

BS in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experiencenExperience building modern front-end applications with React and TypeScript including component-based UI development and API integrationnExperience building internal platforms infrastructure automation developer tooling or enterprise software integrationsnHands-on experience with Kubernetes containers and deployment tools such as Helm Kustomize Terraform or AnsiblenExperience building or operating distributed systems including control planes job orchestration work queues or state reconciliationnDepth in multi-region data consistency locality-aware schema design follower reads or partitioning in CockroachDB Spanner or equivalentnExperience across hybrid and multi-region infrastructure including private cloud virtual machines and bare-metal systemsnExperience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana or SplunknExperience with network virtualization software-defined networking or data center network architecturenExperience with progressive delivery practices such as canary releases blue/green deployments and automated rollbacknHands-on experience integrating LLM APIs prompt development tool and function calling multi-step workflows and developing AI evaluations agentic workflows or Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrationsnDemonstrated ability to turn customer-specific requirements into reusable software and platform capabilities