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Staff Software Engineer, ASE Storage team

Apple· Apple Services Engineering (ASE) – Storage Platforms
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Cupertino, CAFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead engineer/architect role designing and building next-generation storage backend and distributed systems for Apple’s internal cloud infrastructure, with focus on a strongly consistent, distributed key-value store and massive-scale storage services.

Responsibilities

  • Directly impact the direction for the backend of many critical Apple internet services for years to come.
  • Design, build and maintain software and services to improve feature set, availability, scalability and security of Apple's internal cloud infrastructure.
  • Make tradeoffs on availability and performance while prioritizing durability.
  • Design and implement features for a distributed key-value store (e.g., automatic repairs, shard splits, rebalances).
  • Support a massively scalable system currently spread across 2000+ hosts and handling 5M+ transactions per second.
  • Build a strongly consistent, distributed, ordered key-value database using a custom transaction log on Raft/ZAB with RocksDB as storage engine.
  • Collaborate with internal teams including customer teams and the storage reliability engineering team.
  • Focus on testable, maintainable code and scalable processes across the team.

Qualifications

  • 10 years of professional software development experience on software or infrastructure systems
  • 5 years of experience building and operating distributed systems
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail
  • Experience coding in one or more of these programming languages: Rust, C++, Java or C#
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems design and operationKey-value store design and implementationProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Apple benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discount programs, free services, education reimbursement, potential bonuses or commissions, relocation eligibility
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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