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About Apple Inc
Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software
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The Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering joins the Apple Services Engineering team to build distributed large-scale data processing systems, frameworks, and platforms. Working closely with the Apple TV and Video teams, the engineer will develop scalable systems that power real-time insights and business decisions for Apple TV and Sports products. Daily responsibilities include architecting real-time streaming pipelines, building intelligent AI Agentic workflows, and designing LangGraph-powered workflows for production-grade data systems. The role requires expertise in Java, Scala, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, and Cassandra. Candidates must also possess hands-on experience with AI technologies, including MCP servers and Large Language Models. The work focuses on managing petabyte-scale data infrastructure while strictly adhering to core privacy principles.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Architect and build real-time streaming pipelines using Apache Flink to process millions of events per second.
Develop distributed large-scale data processing systems and platforms using big data technologies like Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra.
Build intelligent AI Agentic workflows and MCP servers to automate decision-making and data processing.
Design and integrate LangGraph-powered workflows to bring Large Language Models into production-grade data systems.
Engineer highly available, petabyte-scale data infrastructure to power real-time insights for Apple TV and Sports products.
Translate multi-functional requirements into practical engineering tasks and technical architecture documents.
Ensure all architectural decisions and data systems strictly adhere to Apple's core privacy principles.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of experience developing and maintaining production-grade applications using Java and/or Scala.
5+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems using technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, or Cassandra.
Hands-on experience working with AI technologies, including building MCP Servers, designing Agentic workflows, and integrating Large Language Models (LLMs).
Good understanding of software engineering principles and fundamentals including algorithms and data structures (preferred).
Self-directed, self-motivated and ability to create architecture and design documents (preferred).
Ability to assemble multi-functional requirements and translate them into practical engineering tasks (preferred).
Java
Kotlin
Go
Python
RESTful APIs
Distributed Systems
SQL
MySQL
NoSQL
Cassandra
DynamoDB
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Solr
Elasticsearch
Redis
Spring Framework
Spring Boot
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Large Language Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Vector Databases
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google Gemini
Azure OpenAI
AWS Bedrock
Hugging Face
Java
Swift
C++
Go
Kubernetes
Distributed Systems
Cloud Deployment
Observability
Cryptographic Protocols
Data Encryption
Secure Key Management
Security Architecture
Performance Benchmarking
Debugging
Tuning