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Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Golang)

Apple· Software and Services / Satellite Communications Group
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Hybrid (Austin, Texas), Hybrid (San Diego, California), Hybrid (San Jose, California)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer with distributed systems and orchestration experience to build and operate large-scale, highly resilient satellite-connected services for Apple. Focus on end-to-end infrastructure, provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and software platforms within a no-ops culture, enabling connectivity via satellite when off-grid.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to distributed systems, architecture design, and cloud infrastructure (as code) for critical Apple services.
  • Build and run the infrastructure powering satellite connectivity services, including provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and supporting platforms.
  • Work on end-to-end infrastructure with emphasis on build and operator-free operations as part of a no-ops culture.
  • Scale and maintain large-scale, highly available systems that enable access to communications services via satellite.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years Software engineering or DevOps experience
  • Proficient in at least one of these languages: Python, Go, Rust, C++
  • Strong experience with large-scale distributed systems (replication, high availability, data processing/streaming)
  • Strong experience with Linux/UNIX administration, configuration, and monitoring
  • Have written or contributed to a batch or realtime processing system
  • Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure): identity & credential management, pub/sub, message queuing
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, Flux, Ansible, etc)
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with zero-downtime deployments, job scheduling systems, event-based messaging systems
  • Able to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies
  • Strong operational and troubleshooting skills.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability.
  • Strong familiarity with consensus algorithms (e.g., Raft, Paxos, Zab, etc)
  • Experience building and operating multi-clustered and highly-available services
  • Experience with Temporal/Cadence/Windmill or other durable execution platforms
  • Understanding of zero-trust application architecture
  • Proven experience building and optimizing real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam, etc.
  • Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration
  • Experience with IoT/Edge device compute and infrastructure
  • Experience or interest in RF, Cellular, Satellite communications (Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, LTE/5G)
  • Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, vips, load balancers, proxies
  • Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus
  • Education: Engineering or technical BS is a positive but not required.

Skills

Required:GoDistributed systemsLinux/UNIXCloud platformsInfrastructure as codeContainerization / OrchestrationDeploymentObservability / MonitoringKubernetes cluster management
Nice to have:PythonRustC++Data processing
Last updated Aug 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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