Senior Software Engineer (Observability Solutions) - Enterprise Technology Services

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Salary: $212,000–$318,400 / yr
Posted: 24 days ago

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer (Observability Solutions) - Enterprise Technology Services

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As a Senior Software Engineer on Apple IS&T’s Enterprise Technology Services team, you will play a pivotal role in architecting the next generation of Observability Platform, focusing on designing highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems that handle petabytes of data from billions of daily transactions. Your responsibilities include defining technical strategies, driving architecture decisions, leading design reviews, and mentoring engineers across various experience levels through code reviews and coaching. You will work closely with peer architects to translate complex problems into practical solutions, ensuring the platform remains consistent and performant as it scales. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in Go and distributed systems, along with hands-on expertise in RDBMS or NoSQL databases, making them well-suited for this mission-critical service that supports Apple’s most critical services.

Skills

Go Distributed Systems RDBMS NoSQL Prometheus Elasticsearch APM Database Internals Query Optimization Transaction Management Indexing Strategies Consistency Models

What you'll do

Architect highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems at petabyte scale.
Design core backend services in Go, focusing on performance and operational simplicity.
Drive technical strategy and make critical architecture decisions for the platform.
Lead design reviews and set engineering best practices within the team.
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the entire system stack.

What we're looking for

3+ years of hands-on experience in Go programming.
Extensive experience building or scaling systems handling large data workloads.
Hands-on experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
10+ years of overall software engineering experience.
Deep expertise in designing and operating distributed systems.
Strong understanding of database internals, including storage engines and query optimization.

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