Sr. Software Engineer, Podcasts Team

Apple · San Francisco, CA · Software and Services

senior Software Engineer ic · Posted May 13, 2026

About this role

Apple is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Java, gRPC, Elasticsearch, Cassandra.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Location
San Francisco, CA
Department
Software and Services
Posted
May 13, 2026

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Job description

from Apple careers

Apple Podcasts connects hundreds of millions of listeners with millions of creators around the world. Behind that experience is a backend engineering team within Apple Services Engineering (ASE) that builds the systems responsible for ingesting, processing, and serving one of the largest podcast catalogs on the planet.

We're looking for a backend engineer to help us design and scale the services that power Apple Podcasts. If you want to work on high-scale distributed systems that directly shape how people discover and enjoy audio and video content, this is the role.
As a backend engineer on the Apple Podcasts team, you will own server-side systems that process data from millions of podcast providers, manage complex catalog state, and serve content to Apple's global audience.

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