Software Platform Engineer

Join the Final Cut Pro engineering team — Apple’s flagship professional video editing suite used by major Hollywood studios and millions of creators worldwide— and drive the technical evolution of core data infrastructure that enables professional creative workflows.

• Develop and enhance the data model & persistence infrastructure in Final Cut Pro.
• Contribute to the migration of legacy Objective-C systems to modern Swift using best practices for maintainability and testability.
• Implement features and improvements using Swift’s structured concurrency model and Grand Central Dispatch, with attention to thread safety and performance.
• Collaborate closely with product and platform teams to deliver foundational improvements that enable seamless workflows across Apple’s creative suite.
• Identify and resolve complex bottlenecks in multi-threaded, latency-sensitive environments processing large media files.
• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code following modern architectural principles.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions and technical investigations while contributing to engineering excellence standards

• 5+ years of experience in application or platform-level development, with a focus on persistence frameworks and system design.
• Deep experience with Core Data or similar persistence technologies, including schema migrations and domain modeling.
• Mastery of Swift concurrency patterns and seamless Objective-C interoperability.
• Solid understanding of multi-threaded programming, synchronization, and memory management in modern Apple environments.
• Experience with unit testing, continuous integration, and engineering best practices.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical ideas clearly and work collaboratively in a multi-functional team.

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance

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