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Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple· Software and Services
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San Francisco, CA$150.4k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineer for observability infrastructure within Apple's cloud services, focusing on CloudKit and iCloud observability. design, build, deploy and operate fault-tolerant, distributed back-end services at massive scale, with potential to apply machine learning to operational problems.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and support distributed applications and services that ingest and process massive volumes of operational data
  • Integrate with large-scale data processing engines (e.g., Spark, Trino, Flink) as part of a broader service architecture
  • Collaborate with teams across iCloud to understand their systems and deliver the insights and tooling they need to operate with confidence
  • 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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience developing software in Java or a similar language (e.g., C++, C#, Go)
  • Strong background in designing, building, and operating backend services and distributed systems
  • Experience in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments
  • Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms
  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent job-related experience

Skills

Required:JavaConcurrencyKubernetesDistributed systems
Nice to have:C++GoAWS / GCP / cloud nativeSpark / Flink / TrinoTime-series data

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation assistance
  • Apple shareholder opportunities via stock programs (RSU, Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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