Sr. Software Engineer, Podcasts Team

Benefits

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Salary

$181K-$318K 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

114% 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

Sr. Software Engineer, Podcasts Team San Francisco, United States of America 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. You'll build APIs consumed by other internal systems across Apple, design database schemas for evolving content models, and architect asynchronous data pipelines that must operate reliably across multiple data centers. Your work directly supports cross-functional tentpole features - collaborating with client teams, product, design, business, and operations partners to deliver end-to-end solutions. Design, build, and operate highly available microservices that process podcast metadata from millions of external providers Develop and maintain gRPC and REST APIs consumed by internal services and external partners Architect database schemas and data models that support complex catalog state across relational and NoSQL datastores Build and optimize asynchronous data processing pipelines using message queues to handle high-throughput event-driven workflows Collaborate with client

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