iOS Engineer Cloud Media and Collaboration

What if the media management infrastructure you architect today became the backbone of how millions of creatives organize sync and collaborate on their work for the next decade This is a founding-team opportunity on a high-visibility project where your decisions on cloud syncing architecture on-device storage and cross-platform media management will shape products used across iOS and macOS at Apples scale. You wont inherit someone elses design youll set the direction.

Youll own end-to-end architecture for cloud syncing and media management features writing performant multi-threaded Swift code that ships to a massive install base and holds up under real creative workloads. Your collaborators will be HI designers QA engineers and cross-functional teams who expect you to bridge deep technical judgment with clear communication influencing product direction not just implementation. Every week youll compound your expertise in CloudKit AVKit and on-device storage while raising the technical bar for engineers around you through mentorship and architectural leadership.

Architect the end-to-end design of cloud media library systems setting technical direction that shapes how millions of users store sync and access creative worknBuild production-grade cloud syncing and collaboration infrastructure that ships as core features in Apple creativity appsnOwn the performance and correctness of multi-threaded media pipelines from on-device storage to cloud state reconciliationnDrive alignment across design QA and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver complete polished featuresnShape product and project direction by translating complex technical tradeoffs into clear decisions for both engineers and non-technical partners

3 years shipping production code on Apple platforms (iOS and/or macOS) with a track record of reliability and scalenAdvanced Swift proficiency: demonstrated through shipped frameworks performance-critical systems or large codebasesnDeep expertise in cloud syncing architectures and media management technologies applied to real consumer or professional productsnProven technical lead experience: owning scoping cross-team coordination and stakeholder communication on multi-quarter featuresnStrong command of concurrency patterns and multi-threaded programming with measurable outcomes in correctness and throughputnSolid computer science foundations: data structures algorithms and object-oriented design applied at production scalenBachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent engineering experience

Hands-on experience building and shipping CloudKit-backed features including sync conflict Designed and maintained developer-facing APIs or reusable frameworks adopted across multiple teams or productsnBuilt media encoding decoding or playback systems using AVFoundation or AVKit in shipping applicationsnDiagnosed and resolved systemic performance bottlenecks across memory I/O networking or database layers with measurable before/after impactnExperience with relational data layers (SQLite Core Data or PostgreSQL) in the context of media metadata or large-scale asset management