Senior Software Engineer - FaceTime and SharePlay, Vision Products Software

Summary The Vision Products Group introduced Apple Vision Pro and visionOS to the world, and FaceTime on Apple Vision Pro makes it feel like you’re together, even when you’re apart. Our mission is to create the best way to have a conversation and share an experience when you can’t physically be with the most important people in your life.

We’re looking for a senior technical leader to be a hands-on architect across spatial FaceTime, Spatial Personas, SharePlay and sharing with nearby people, from the system services that manage sessions to the real-time sync that keeps a shared space consistent and the APIs developers build on. This is a broad, high-impact individual contributor role for someone who wants to go where the hardest problems are and help define the future of spatial communication.

Description You will be a technical leader for spatial FaceTime and SharePlay on Apple Vision Pro and across Apple platforms. This is a hands-on engineering architect role: you will go after problems that span multiple teams, prototype and write code, and turn what you learn into durable architectural improvements.

You will push the boundaries of how people collaborate, whether together in the same room or across the world. You will invent new technologies that enable these experiences, and build on Apple’s networking and conferencing infrastructure to bring them to life. Underneath it all, distributed state has to be correct: every participant, remote or nearby, must see the same content and interactions across devices, processes, OS versions and network conditions.

You will drive designs with partner teams across Apple, act as a trusted technical contact for app teams adopting SharePlay, and mentor engineers to build lasting depth across the team.

Responsibilities

Architects and leads new spatial FaceTime and SharePlay features and system services from concept through ship, across multiple teams. Invents new technologies that expand how people collaborate, in person and remotely. Owns and evolves the real-time synchronization layer that keeps shared spatial state consistent across participants, devices and OS versions. Designs session and calling capabilities in system daemons and frameworks, including group calls and sharing with nearby people. Designs developer APIs for first- and third-party apps and guides them through API review and adoption. Diagnoses and resolves the complex, intermittent multi-device issues that impact multiple teams. Mentors engineers and sets technical direction.

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience. 10+ years of experience building system-level frameworks, services or daemons that shipped in production. Proven experience leading the architecture of a distributed or multi-process system, including state synchronization, consistency and failure handling. Expert proficiency in Swift, including modern concurrency (async/await, actors, Sendable, structured concurrency), and working proficiency in Objective-C. Experience designing inter-process communication and reliable, secure system services. Demonstrated ability to debug complex, intermittent issues across multiple processes or devices. Demonstrated ability to set technical direction across multiple teams without direct management authority.

Preferred Qualifications Experience with real-time communication or collaboration technologies. Experience with CRDTs, replicated-data synchronization, or peer-to-peer and proximity-based networking. Experience with visionOS, RealityKit, ARKit or spatial computing. Experience shipping public APIs and engaging with third-party developers. Experience with maintaining backwards compatibility and replacing legacy systems in non-disruptive ways. Experience using AI-assisted and agentic coding tools to accelerate development. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with comfort as the technical point of contact for many partner teams.

Pay & Benefits At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $216,200 and $394,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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