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 critical observability platforms, reliability tooling, and AI-powered automation. The role involves building systems for high-volume telemetry data using OpenTelemetry standards, creating helper libraries for metrics and traces, and refactoring legacy Java instrumentation into standard formats. You will build intelligent tools for automated incident triage, root cause analysis, and AI-assisted debugging to reduce on-call burdens. Key technologies include Kotlin, Go, Python, or Java, alongside experience with Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, and Splunk. The work focuses on the complex domain of payment infrastructure, where systems must ensure high availability, low latency, and strict security for financial transactions. You will manage data pipelines, distributed systems, and infrastructure components like Kubernetes to solve problems in a high-compliance environment requiring extreme accuracy and reliability.
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