Sr. Software Engineer, Podcasts Team

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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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