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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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Listed pay typically runs
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As a Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, you will join the team responsible for building distributed large-scale data processing systems, frameworks, and platforms. You will partner with Apple TV and Video teams to develop infrastructure that powers real-time insights and fuels business decisions for products like Apple TV and Sports. Your daily work involves architecting real-time streaming pipelines, building intelligent AI Agentic workflows, and designing LangGraph-powered workflows to integrate Large Language Models into production-grade systems. You will utilize a technical stack including Java, Scala, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and Cassandra. The role focuses on solving complex data infrastructure challenges at petabyte scale while ensuring high availability and strict adherence to privacy principles. You will translate multi-functional requirements into practical engineering tasks to support critical business needs for millions of customers.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 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, frameworks, and platforms using big data technologies.
Build intelligent AI Agentic workflows and MCP servers to automate decision-making processes.
Design LangGraph-powered workflows to integrate Large Language Models into production-grade data systems.
Maintain high-availability infrastructure that provides consistent, trustworthy results for critical business requirements.
Translate multi-functional requirements into practical engineering tasks and technical specifications.
Create architecture and design documents for scalable distributed systems using Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Cassandra.
Ensure all architectural decisions align with 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 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).