Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, iCloud Platform

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted: 12 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, iCloud Platform

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Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, iCloud Platform joins the team responsible for designing, building, and growing a foundational privacy-focused platform. This role involves developing critical components of iCloud to introduce new fundamental capabilities that enable the scaling of existing services like CloudKit, FaceTime, and PushNotifications. You will partner with cross-functional teams to improve scalability, availability, and performance while evolving architecture to support continued growth. Daily tasks include triaging production issues with SRE and implementing features that maintain strong privacy guarantees. Required skills include experience with distributed systems, performance benchmarking, and cloud deployment technologies like Kubernetes. Candidates should possess proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Swift, C/C++, or Go, along with an understanding of cryptographic protocols, data encryption, and secure key management.

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Skills

Java Swift C++ Go Kubernetes Distributed Systems Cloud Deployment Observability Cryptographic Protocols Data Encryption Secure Key Management Security Architecture Performance Benchmarking Debugging Tuning

What you'll do

Design, build, and grow Apple’s foundational privacy-focused cloud platform.
Develop features and functionality to enable new experiences across the Apple ecosystem.
Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of cloud services.
Evolve system design and architecture to support continued growth across multiple dimensions.
Triage, investigate, and remediate production issues in partnership with SRE teams.
Implement and operate highly scalable distributed systems.
Perform performance benchmarking, debugging, and tuning for distributed systems.
Manage cloud deployment and observability technologies such as Kubernetes.

What we're looking for

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 (preferred).
Experienced in managing technical and organizational complexity to drive projects from idea to production (preferred).
Understanding of cryptographic protocols, data encryption, secure key management, and security architecture (preferred).

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