Senior Software Engineer – Content Management Systems

Summary Marcom is the creatively-led global team that oversees Apple’s consumer facing marketing. We ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications across all medias and platforms. Every day, hundreds of millions of Apple customers around the world interact with our products. We drive the strategy and creative work that provide both new and existing customers with simple, engaging and inspiring marketing experiences.

Marcom’s Interactive Engineering team works on many high-impact projects that serve various Apple lines of business. We use the latest in open source technologies and continue to evolve and deliver solutions on a worldwide scale. Working with a variety of multi-functional teams, the Interactive Engineering group brings it all together to deliver the interactive experiences with an excellent group of software engineers while having fun along the way. This team is exciting and fast-paced; it’s a great place for people with exacting standards who want their work to matter.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience to design, architect, develop, and evolve modern, distributed, scalable, and high-performance Content Management Systems (CMS) using Java, open-source technologies, and modern software engineering practices. This role is critical to the evolution of Apple’s brand as you will be working with the teams taking apple.com to the next phase of its evolution.

The role is primarily focused on CMS engineering, content architecture, content modeling, workflows, versioning, localization, publishing, APIs, integrations, search, and large-scale content delivery. The engineer will provide technical leadership in designing and delivering complex CMS capabilities and will drive solutions across the end-to-end content lifecycle.

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about building modern CMS platforms, solving complex content management problems at scale, and leveraging AI-assisted engineering and agentic workflows to improve both CMS capabilities and software development productivity.

Description This role provides an opportunity to provide technical leadership while building modern, distributed, and large-scale Content Management Systems that power apple.com and enable content to be created, managed, governed, localized, and delivered across multiple digital experiences.

You will work across Java backend services, CMS platforms, content architecture, content modeling, workflows, APIs, integrations, search, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and AI-powered engineering workflows.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to lead the technical design of complex CMS capabilities, influence architectural direction, mentor engineers, and remain hands-on in implementation.

The role is suited for an engineer who enjoys solving complex CMS and distributed-systems problems at scale and is excited about the evolution of CMS platforms through headless architectures, open-source technologies, automation, and AI agents.

The primary focus of this role is CMS engineering, technical design leadership, and end-to-end ownership of complex CMS capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and design ownership for major CMS capabilities and initiatives spanning the content lifecycle.
• Architect, design, develop, customize, and extend the distributed, large-scale CMS platforms that power apple.com and other Apple digital experiences, supporting high volumes of content.
• Drive the architecture and evolution of CMS content models, content relationships, metadata, taxonomy, workflows, approvals, versioning, localization, publishing, and delivery.
• Lead the design and implementation of headless and API-first CMS architectures enabling content delivery across web, mobile, and other digital channels.
• Design and develop REST and GraphQL APIs for content authoring, management, preview, search, and delivery using Java and Spring Boot.
• Design and build integrations between CMS platforms and search, digital asset management, identity, analytics, CDN, and other enterprise systems.
• Define and drive solutions for scalability, high availability, resiliency, fault tolerance, performance, and efficient content delivery in distributed environments.
• Design and implement caching, indexing, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines for la…