Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate highly scalable backend services, internal platforms, and data pipelines.
• Develop and productize AI-powered applications and intelligent workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Write high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code while raising the engineering quality bar.
• Monitor production systems to troubleshoot complex issues and improve reliability and performance.
• Identify and integrate generative AI into products, engineering workflows, and operational processes.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and share best practices with other teams.
• Participate in architecture discussions to balance long-term technical strategy with pragmatic delivery.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience owning features throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Experience designing and developing scalable, highly observable, and resilient backend services and RESTful APIs.
• Strong proficiency in Java and at least one other backend language such as Kotlin, Go, or Python.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, networking, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with databases, data modeling, cloud-native application development, containerized applications, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience building production applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) including prompting and tool calling.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems, data pipelines, or event-driven architectures (preferred).