Software Engineer - Content Management Systems

Job 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 Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience to design, develop, and enhance 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. 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.

Role Overview

This role provides an opportunity to build modern, distributed, and large-scale Content Management Systems that power apple.com and enable content to be created, managed, governed, 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. The role is suited for an engineer who enjoys solving complex CMS 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Build and enhance capabilities across the content lifecycle, including content creation, modeling, relationships, metadata, taxonomy, workflows, approvals, versioning, localization, publishing, and delivery.
• Work hands-on with Java-based open-source CMS platforms and frameworks and extend their capabilities to meet evolving product and business requirements.
• Design and develop headless and API-first CMS solutions enabling content delivery across web, mobile, and other digital channels.
• Develop and integrate REST and GraphQL APIs for content authoring, management, preview, search, and delivery using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build integrations between CMS platforms and search, digital asset management, identity, analytics, CDN, and other enterprise systems.
• Design solutions for scalability, high availability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and efficient content delivery in distributed environments.
• Implement caching, indexing, asynchronous processing, and event-driven mechanisms for large-scale CMS workloads.
• Work with databases and data models supporting large content repositories and efficient content retrieval.
• Develop and maintain supporting backend services and microservices in Java, using Spring Boot and related frameworks, based on the CMS architecture.
• Deploy and operate CMS services using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve CMS, performance, scalability, integration, and production issues, including JVM-level performance and memory tuning.
• Develop unit, integration, and API tests using JUnit and related Java testing frameworks, and contribute to CI/CD and engineering automation.
• Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement of the CMS platform.
• Leverage AI coding assistants and AI agents to improve development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and engineering workflows.
• Explore and build AI-powered capabilities and agentic workflows for CMS use cases, where appropriate.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, frontend engineers, DevOps teams, and content stakeholders.

Key Skills

• Java
• Spring Boot
• REST APIs
• GraphQL
• API-first CMS
• Content Management Systems
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AI agents

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