Software Development Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Cupertino, CA
Salary: $226,138–$272,100 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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Similar $177k

This role $249k

$121k most similar roles pay here $288k

This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $137,006–$217,725 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $249k versus about $177k for comparable roles.

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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

Apple Inc currently has 1817 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Software Development Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer position available in a cutting-edge AI infrastructure team, focusing on designing and implementing large-scale distributed storage and retrieval systems for real-time AI/ML workloads. This role involves architecting an in-house key-value store with high availability, vector database, semantic caching pipeline, and multi-region data movement workflows. Daily tasks include building low-latency, fault-tolerant systems for serving embeddings and similarity-search queries at scale, optimizing vector databases using ANN families like HNSW and IVF, and implementing LLM-grounded validation for cached data. Key technologies include distributed systems, vector database engines, semantic caching, and multi-region replication strategies. The ideal candidate will have expertise in C++, Python, and Kubernetes, with a strong background in AI/ML applications and cloud infrastructure integration.

Skills

C++ Python Rust Go Docker Kubernetes Terraform AWS PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch CI/CD Prometheus Grafana HNSW IVF PQ LLM

What you'll do

Design and implement core infrastructure for a high-availability key-value store.
Build low-latency systems to serve embeddings and handle similarity-search queries.
Optimize vector database engine with efficient indexing algorithms and ANN families.
Architect semantic caching components to reduce compute and storage overhead.
Implement multi-region data-copying workflows with geo-distributed replication strategies.

What we're looking for

Extensive experience in designing and implementing large-scale distributed storage systems.
Proficiency in building fault-tolerant, low-latency data-processing pipelines for AI applications.
Expertise in optimizing vector databases with similarity search algorithms and indexing techniques.
Experience in architecting semantic caching components to reduce compute overhead.
Skills in creating multi-region data movement workflows and ensuring consistency guarantees.

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Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple Inc

San Francisco, CA 35 days ago $147,400–$272,100

Java C++ DynamoDB Cassandra Redis Memcached Kafka AWS GCP Kubernetes gRPC TLS X.509 PostgreSQL CI/CD

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