Senior Backend Systems Engineer, Sensing & Connectivity

Benefits

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Salary

$140K-$258K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

71% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Backend Systems Engineer, Sensing & Connectivity San Diego, United States of America Build the backend systems that power location intelligence for billions of people. Craft the next generation of location-aware experiences by architecting systems that seamlessly connect people's digital and physical lives - at a scale few engineers ever get to work with. Are you passionate about solving hard problems in clever ways? Do you love digging into data and proposing bold ideas, not just implementing them? Do you want your work to have real impact - from someone's daily commute to a life-critical emergency? If so, we might just be the team for you. Here at Apple, we build devices and services that enrich our customers' lives. In the location technologies group, we power navigation, emergency response, fitness, and a rapidly expanding set of indoor and outdoor services across new and existing hardware - spanning the full stack from raw sensors to the application layer. We reach more than a billion people every day, and what we do makes a difference. Join our team, and we'll help you do the best work of your life. If you join our team, you'll architect and build backend systems that process crowdsourced sensor data from hundreds of millions of devices, fueling algorithms that solve problems from everyday navigation to life-critical emergencies. You'll propose ideas, crunch data, leverage modern AI tools, and ship systems that run under demanding real-world efficiency requirements at global scale. If you join our team, you'll bring machine

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