Software Engineer - Digital Asset Management

About the role

Content Solutions Engineering, part of Apple’s IS&T organization, builds and maintains the Content Management systems — including Digital Asset Management (DAM) — that empower Apple’s business teams to author, manage, and publish content across a wide range of channels.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs for asset ingestion, transcoding, metadata management, and taxonomy services using Java and Spring Boot
• Build and operate high-throughput ingestion and transcoding pipelines that process a wide variety of digital asset types at scale
• Design and implement search and retrieval APIs for digital assets, leveraging Solr/Elasticsearch for fast, relevant asset discovery
• Develop and maintain rights and licensing enforcement mechanisms to ensure assets are used and distributed in compliance with content policies
• Integrate DAM services with upstream and downstream content workflows, enabling seamless authoring-to-publish experiences across channels

What you need

• 3–6 years in software engineering
• Java
• REST APIs
• Spring Boot
• MongoDB
• AWS
• Kafka
• B.Sc or M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• Git
• LLMs
• Kubernetes
• DynamoDB
• Elasticsearch
• NoSQL