Senior Software Engineer, Observability
Apple Inc
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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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Senior Software Engineer — Observability joins the Wallet, Payments, and Commerce team to design and develop observability platforms, reliability tooling, and AI-powered automation. The role involves building a solution for deep visibility into service health using OTEL standards for metrics and traces, creating helper libraries for telemetry emission, and refactoring legacy Java instrumentation into standard OpenTelemetry formats. You will also build intelligent tools for automated incident triage and AI-assisted debugging to reduce on-call burdens. Key technologies include Kotlin, Go, Python, Java, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk, and LLM integrations. The work focuses on the critical payment infrastructure domain, where systems must maintain high availability, low latency, and strict security for financial transactions. You will manage high-throughput data pipelines and distributed systems to ensure reliability in a complex, high-scale commerce environment.
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