Operations Systems Software Developer - iPhone Product Operations
Apple
Software Engineering, Product, Operations
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 181,100-272,100 / year + Equity
Posted on Nov 18, 2025
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Apple’s iPhone Operations Systems Architecture Team, which sits at a unique intersection of manufacturing, automation, and final assembly– allows individuals broad insight and impact to the iPhone production line and beyond. We play a meaningful role in finding ways to optimize the manufacturing process by identifying and implementing innovative ways of collecting data and streamlining new product introduction. Do you enjoy automating tools and cross-system engagements to optimize user time? Do you want to make meaningful, visible contributions to a high-impact, high-performance team at Apple? As a member of iPhone Product Operations, you’ll drive and own software solutions and critical systems administration to enable next-generation factory engagements.
This dynamic and fast paced role continually elevates and adapts our applications to the ever-evolving business needs. This role will focus on systems administration and programatic automation, with 30 - 50% of the role heavily concentrated on automating or replacing user engagements in web applications with web automation, RPA, APIs and/or eventing. Up to 50% of the role will focus on manual administration of critical software systems, with the balance of available time focused on forward-looking application development and Program Management. A successful Systems Software Developer is a self-starter, organized and goal-oriented; can turn an open-ended challenge into a clear, explainable plan; uses data to motivate decisions; communicates with ease at all levels; and has a strong drive to understand both the problem and the context when making decisions.
- Administering key systems to drive necessary business processes, and building, managing, and executing automation projects to eliminate engagements that can be readily automated.
- Supporting and modifying queries against databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake and others as necessary to support changing data and structure in established data pipelines.
- Working alongside a team of application developers, attending and sometimes hosting standup and backlog grooming, demoing and reviewing code submissions before promotion to production.
- Identifying incremental or completely new system needs, seeking appropriate, aligned solutions and proposing and motivating those solutions as projects.
- Formally reporting status and progress to the OSA team, users, and management (occasionally to VP level).
- Collaborating with engineering and robotics specialists, data scientists and analysts, Contract Manufacturers, Logistics Providers, and various partners to execute projects to completion
- 7+ years project experience and interest in automating application interactions and building applications or services in manufacturing, supply chain, or large scale operations.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or similar technical field.
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 10-15%
- Ability to evaluate and ideally contribute code in Java, JavaScript and TypeScript, with React experience a plus.
- Experience querying SQL databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL; experience with Snowflake a plus.
- Preferred experience with elements of web applications, including web design, application wire-framing, and Agile project management.
- Experience with RESTful practices and streaming/eventing platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ in support of applications and/or data pipelines.
- Proven track record of owning and delivering on projects.
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