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Senior Software Engineer

Apple· Apple Services Engineering
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$175k - $308.5kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer for Apple Services Engineering, focused on iCloud platform and cloud services infrastructure. Responsible for designing, building, and scaling privacy-focused services core to iCloud and across Apple ecosystem, collaborating with cross-functional teams, improving scalability and performance, and ensuring strong privacy guarantees for over a billion users.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality to enable new experiences in the Apple ecosystem
  • Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of our services
  • Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth across multiple dimensions
  • Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems
  • Industry experience with programming languages such as Java, Swift, C/C++, or Go
  • Experience in performance benchmarking, debugging, and tuning distributed systems
  • Experience in cloud deployment and observability technologies, such as Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience
  • Excellent communication skills, able to build relationships with diverse groups of people
  • Experienced in managing technical and organizational complexity, able to drive a project from a simple idea to production
  • Adept at approaching problems from a position of curiosity, working with flexibility to find innovative solutions
  • Understanding of cryptographic protocols, data encryption, secure key management, and security architecture

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designProgramming languagesPerformance benchmarking and debuggingCloud deployment and observabilitySecurity architectureCommunicationProject management

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation may be eligible
  • Apple shareholder participation through discretionary stock programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (discounted stock)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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