# Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Platforms Engineering

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 platform Apple's engineering teams build on, working closely with those teams to find where the infrastructure beneath them gets in the way and fixing it. Forge is part of Enterprise Technology Services (ETS), within Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization, the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. Forge is building the platform Apple's 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,

- **Id**: 3821530
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-forward-deployed-software-engineer-platforms-engineering>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Shanghai, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T15:52:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T18:41:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7469
- **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**: 90
- **Open postings**: 829
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.181
- **Repost share**: 0.004
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## 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**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T17:23:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 99
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:2, urgency, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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