Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted: 111 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $214k

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This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $177,300–$241,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $210k 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

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

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Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering will join the team responsible for CloudKit, a privacy-focused database platform that synchronizes user data across devices. You will design, develop, and support a multi-tenant platform while partnering with internal teams to ship new customer-facing features. Your daily work involves driving end-to-end project execution, deploying and scaling high-concurrency services, and remediating production issues. The role requires expertise in building fault-tolerant distributed systems using Java, C, or C++. You will work with NoSQL and relational databases, multi-threaded environments, and network application I/O frameworks. Preferred skills include experience with KV data stores like FoundationDB or Cassandra, caching mechanisms like Redis, event streaming via Kafka, and cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes and gRPC. This role solves the challenge of maintaining a highly available, scalable storage foundation for core consumer applications.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.

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Skills

Java C C++ NoSQL Distributed Systems Redis Memcached Kafka AWS GCP Kubernetes gRPC Containers TLS X.509 FoundationDB DynamoDB Cassandra

What you'll do

Design, develop, and support a multi-tenant platform using various underlying technologies.
Partner with internal teams to develop and ship new customer-facing features.
Drive end-to-end project execution from initial design reviews through production releases.
Deploy, scale, and maintain highly concurrent and throughput-intensive services.
Triage, investigate, and remediate production and operational issues.
Build fault-tolerant distributed systems to support large-scale data storage.
Implement features for the CloudKit platform to ensure high availability and scalability.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.
3+ years of industry experience developing software in Java, C, or C++.
Experience working with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologies.
Expertise in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworks.
Expertise in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments.
Industry experience building and operating large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems.
Knowledge of storage systems, high-performance caching, event streaming, and cloud-native technologies.
Experience with security and cryptographic protocols such as TLS or X.509 certificates.