# Senior Backend Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Are you ready to make a significant impact on how one of the world's largest analytics organizations moves, serves, and governs its data? If you are passionate about building high-performance, reliable platform services at internet scale, we would love for you to apply! The Apple Services Data Science & Analytics organization drives decisions that improve the customer experience, accelerate growth, and uncover new business opportunities while respecting user privacy and adhering to regulatory policy. We work on some of the largest e-commerce and media streaming businesses in the world and have an incredible team collaborating on the best ways to improve these services for our customers! Our culture is built on rapid iteration, open debate, and independent thinking - we take calculated risks and work as analytical advisors across product, design, engineering, marketing, editorial, legal, and business teams. Description As a Senior Software Engineer on the Services Data Science & Analytics Platform Engineering team, you will design, build, and operate the backend services that form the foundation of DS&A's data platform. This is high-stakes infrastructure work: every downstream consu

- **Id**: 4013550
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-senior-backend-software-engineer-platform-engineering-5>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-29T21:13:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T11:26:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 194
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2858
- **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**: 93
- **Open postings**: 358
- **Ghost share**: 0.008
- **Stale share**: 0.022
- **Repost share**: 0.064
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **Snowflake** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **Trino** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 194

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T11:20:05Z

## 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**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.773
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 194
- **Expected fill days**: 122
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T13:30:48Z

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