Software Development Engineer in Test, IS&T Customer Systems

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200667747-0157

Summary

At Apple, our mission is simple. We focus on enriching people’s lives by building the world’s best products, and offering the best purchase experience and customer service on the planet.

Customer Systems is part of IS&T and drives the technology behind Apple's customer support experience — from contact center operations to the software powering the iconic Genius Bar. The team also builds and operates AppleCare's online support platform, which handles 6 billion visits per year, delivering seamless, high-quality support to Apple customers around the globe.

The Customer Systems team builds the applications and services that enable exceptional support experiences for over half a billion customers all over the world. Our technology and services power the uniquely Apple experience every time our customers reach out to us for help - in the store, over the phone, chat, email or social media. Our applications are inclusive, highly performant, deployed at scale and help set the gold standard for customer service!

Come join us to do the best work of your life with a welcoming, diverse and talented group of engineers. Bring passion and dedication to the job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish!

Description

We, in the Quality Engineering team, fill the mission-critical role of ensuring that our complex, large-scale systems stay healthy, monitored, automated and designed to scale with consistent performance. We are looking for motivated critical problem solvers with a sharp eye for detail, who can come up with a customer focused testing strategy, keeping in mind the micro-services context of our applications.

You will support studies aimed at the discovery, development, and validation of groundbreaking new CRM applications and shared services — including AI- and GenAI-powered features that are reshaping the customer experience.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of SDET experience.

• Strong object-oriented programming and software design skills, preferably in Java or Python.

• Experience leveraging GenAI to build automated UI and non-UI tests for user-facing applications.

• Bachelors Degree or Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Creative problem solver — building scalable solutions in collaborative, cross-functional teams; comfortable applying GenAI to accelerate test creation and broaden coverage.

• Ability to proactively triage, investigate, and debug backend and UX issues — independently and collaboratively, using GenAI to speed up root-cause analysis.

• Highly organized with strong planning skills to estimate, track, and communicate progress — leveraging GenAI to streamline documentation and status updates.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.