February 27, 2025

Senior Content Engineer, Swift

Senior • On-site

$166,600 - $296,300/yr

Seattle, WA

Summary

Posted:
Weekly Hours: 5
Role Number:200592978
Swift is a powerful, memory-safe, general-purpose programming language that supports multiple platforms from macOS, iOS, Linux, Windows, to embedded and more. We are looking for an Open Source Software Engineer to create amazing content to drive adoption of Swift on Linux and other platforms. This role will drive build awareness and learning pathways through documentation, tutorials, samples, and more. You would join Apple’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), a passionate, collaborative, and distributed team that partners Apple-wide to support open source strategy and operations. If you enjoy connecting people and ideas, building community, and growing open source at scale, we'd love to hear from you!

Description

As an open source community builder, you know how to strike a balance of passion and pragmatism. You thrive on building sustainable content programs that developers, contributors, and consumers taut as high-quality documentation where the samples and tutorials “just work”. You love working in open source to create better developer experiences for its users. Drawing from your experience, you’ll: * drive content initiatives that bring in new community members to the Swift programming language and support the existing ecosystem * write content for swift.org, forums.swift.org, and other channels meeting the future developers of Swift where they are, and provide experienced developers with targeted content * help drive an events content program geared towards getting started, up and running, troubleshooting, and advanced guides like performance for Swift for Linux * help troubleshoot, debug, and guide Swift developers * Recommend developer experience and other improvements for Swift Package Manager (SwiftPM) and other ecosystems tools A large part of this role will be interfacing with open source developers and contributors of many skill sets and backgrounds and writing Swift with them! If you don’t already know Swift, you’ll be expected to learn to prepare samples and tutorials. While there is an emphasis for new documentation and bringing in new users, this role will be responsible for being a bridge between what we have, the deltas of what’s missing, and the content opportunities of what's ahead.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience working in a linux environment
  • 3+ years of software development experience with a general purpose programming language
  • 2+ years working with an open source projects community/ecosystem
  • Experience building content programs for an open source community/ecosystem; proven experience with public speaking and written technical writing skills for blogs
  • Strong technical writing skills and demonstrated experience with documenting programming language foundations and principles
  • Experience creating sample code, templates, and tutorials from scratch
  • Experience working with GitHub in a collaborative git environment and content publishing tools
  • Demonstrated great communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization

Preferred Qualifications

  • Programming language industry experience
  • Experience with Swift as a general purpose programing language
  • Strong facilitation, prioritization, and project management skills.
  • Comfortable with navigating ambiguity in order to build structured plans and solutions
  • Experience with DocC
  • Demonstrated empathy and reasoning
  • Ability to pick up and learn new technologies and break down new concepts for others
  • You exude strong collaboration skills, including the ability to mentor and be mentored.

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 $166,600 and $296,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

    Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

    Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure 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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.