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Sr. Software Engineer, Infrastructure Services (Control Plane)

Apple· Software and Services
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer role focusing on designing, building, and operating the distributed control plane and orchestration systems for Apple's Infrastructure Services within IS&T, handling global scale, reliability, and high-performance APIs and services.

Responsibilities

  • Distributed Control Plane Architecture: Design, build, and scale resilient control plane software, SDN controllers, and orchestration services managing thousands of network elements.
  • API & System Design: Architect robust, low-latency APIs (REST, gRPC) and state-synchronization pipelines between centralized control planes and distributed network endpoints.
  • Protocol & Topology Management: Develop modules for routing control, topology discovery, configuration generation, policy enforcement, and fabric automation.
  • Operational Excellence & Reliability: Drive fleet-wide resilience by triaging complex distributed system failures, analyzing production metrics and logs, and driving root-cause remediation.
  • High-Quality Software Delivery: Write clean, modular, and well-tested code in Go, Java, or C++, maintaining rigorous CI/CD standards and automated validation.

Qualifications

  • Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or C++, along with experience in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
  • Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, multithreading, and distributed system design.
  • Solid understanding of Networking Fundamentals: TCP/IP, L2/L3 routing and switching concepts, BGP, overlay networks, and network virtualization.
  • Proficiency with Git, modern build systems, and configuration management infrastructure.
  • Experience designing, developing, and operating scalable distributed systems, microservices, and high-throughput APIs (REST, gRPC, Protobuf).
  • Understanding of distributed system challenges: state consensus, eventual consistency, partition tolerance, caching, and database design.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize, troubleshoot, and resolve critical production issues in large-scale distributed environments.
  • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills to articulate architectural decisions, balance trade-offs, and hit bold milestone targets.

Skills

Required:GoJavaC++Distributed systems
Nice to have:Python

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, and a range of discounted products and free services.
  • Reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition.
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation opportunities.
  • Employee stock programs including discretionary RSU awards and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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