Sr. Systems Software Engineer - Video Technologies

Apple • San Diego, CA

7h

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Video Applications team, you'll build and evolve the core application layers that support high-performance video workflows. This role focuses on low-level, non-UI technologies that are foundational to reliability, security, and performance across our video applications. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to design and implement robust systems that integrate deeply in Apple’s creative applications ecosystem.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on low-level application development.
• Strong experience building low-level, non-UI application layers.
• Must have experience working with macOS internals
• In-depth knowledge of application networking and file system APIs.
• Solid understanding of XPC processes and interprocess communication.
• Experience working with Security Scoped Bookmarks and platform security models.
• Proficiency in C++, Objective-C, and Swift.
• Advanced debugging skills using Xcode, including frameworks and external processes.
• Ability to reason about performance, concurrency, memory management, and system behavior.
• Experience working on complex, long-lived codebases.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in sandboxed or security-sensitive environments.
• Experience with media or graphics applications, video editing tools, or creative software workflows.
• Proven ability to work on complex, ambiguous problems and drive solutions end-to-end.
• Prior ownership of shared infrastructure or platform-level components.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level