# 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 Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s 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, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's 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! Most 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, you'll design, build, test, ship, and run the plat

- **Id**: 3767093
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-forward-deployed-software-engineer-platforms-engineering-enterprise-technology-services>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T18:10:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T20:58:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7962
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 812
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.222
- **Repost share**: 0.004
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CockroachDB** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **PKI** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **Google Cloud Spanner** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Kustomize** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes
- **Progressive Delivery** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **Splunk** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T20:17:24Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

## Liveness

- **Score**: 99
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:1, urgency, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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