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Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple· Software and Services
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Seattle, WA$175k - $308.5kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior software engineer to help develop Apple's cloud services infrastructure (CloudKit), focusing on a strongly-consistent, highly scalable, multi-tenant data platform and related customer-facing features within Apple Services Engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and support a multi-tenant platform with many underlying technologies
  • Partner with teams across Apple to develop and ship new customer-facing features
  • 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

  • 7+ years of industry experience developing software in Java, C, or C++
  • Experience working with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologies
  • Expertise in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworks
  • Expertise in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments
  • Industry experience building and operating large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems
  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience
  • Strong background with KV data stores, e.g., FoundationDB, DynamoDB, or Cassandra
  • Strong fundamentals in storage systems, e.g., schema design, indexes, and transactions
  • Familiar with high-performance caching mechanisms, e.g., Redis or Memcached
  • Familiar with event streaming and queueing systems, e.g., Kafka
  • Experience using AWS, GCP, and cloud-native technologies (Containers, Kubernetes, gRPC)
  • Experience with TLS, X.509 certificates, or similar security and cryptographic protocols

Skills

Required:JavaCC++Distributed NoSQLRelational databasesNetworking I/O frameworksConcurrency and multi-threadingKV data storesStorage systems
Nice to have:Caching

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through discretionary employee stock programs
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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