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Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Golang)

Apple· Software and Services
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San Jose, California, Austin, Texas, San Diego, California$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer with distributed systems and orchestration experience to join Apple's Satellite Communications Group. Build and run large-scale, highly resilient systems and infrastructure for satellite-based connectivity services, with a no-ops culture and end-to-end ownership from provisioning to monitoring.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to distributed systems, architecture design, and cloud infrastructure (as code) for critical customer-facing Apple services.
  • Build and run the infrastructure that powers these services, including provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and software platforms.
  • Work on satellite network services enabling connectivity when off the grid, supporting Emergency SOS, Roadside assistance, and Messages via satellite.
  • Scale Apple’s services for a global customer base, solving problems with software rather than shell prompts.

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/UNIX administrationCloud platformsInfrastructure as codeContainerization & orchestrationZero-downtime deploymentsData processing pipelinesKubernetes
Nice to have:IoT/Edge compute

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • educational reimbursement (tuition)
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Aug 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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