Senior Software Engineer – iCloud Platform Engineering

We are looking for engineers who have exceptional expertise in building fault-tolerant distributed systems that power critical cloud services. Our engineers demonstrate unique leadership skills and can excel in a complex environment that obsesses about the customer experience. As a software engineer on the core observability platform components of iCloud services, you will: – Design, develop, and support a multi-tenant platform that standardizes observability across iCloud services – Partner with teams across Apple to design, develop, and ship new platform capabilities – Drive end-to-end project execution, from design reviews and through production releases – Deploy, scale, and maintain highly concurrent and throughput intensive services – Triage, investigate, and remediate production and operational issues

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support a multi-tenant platform with many underlying technologies
• Partner with teams across Apple to develop and ship new customer-facing features
• Drive end-to-end project execution, from design reviews and through production releases
• Deploy, scale, and maintain highly concurrent and throughput intensive services
• Triage, investigate, and remediate production and operational issues

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience developing software in Java, Swift, C, or C++
• Expertise working with distributed systems and highly concurrent environments
• Expertise in streaming data processing frameworks, handling data at massive scale
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent job-related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments
• Expertise in distributed streaming architectures and real-time data analytics at massive scale
• Strong background in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworks
• Strong background with time-series and NoSQL databases
• Strong background in observability concepts: metrics, traces, logs, and their correlation
• Familiar with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger, or similar
• Experience using AWS, GCP, and cloud native technologies (Containers, Kubernetes, gRPC)

At Apple, we’re not all the same. And that’s our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we’ve experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law.