Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, iCloud Platform

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$142,300–$263,300 / yr
Posted
12 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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, iCloud Platform

Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, iCloud Platform will join the team responsible for designing, building, and growing Apple’s foundational privacy-focused platform. This role involves developing critical components of iCloud to introduce new fundamental capabilities that enable the scaling of existing services like CloudKit, FaceTime, and PushNotifications. Key responsibilities include partnering with cross-functional teams to develop features, improving scalability, availability, and performance, and evolving architecture to support growth. Candidates must possess professional experience in designing and operating highly scalable distributed systems using programming languages such as Java, Swift, C/C++, or Go. The role requires expertise in performance benchmarking, debugging, and cloud deployment technologies like Kubernetes. Additionally, the position involves managing technical complexity and understanding cryptographic protocols, data encryption, and secure key management.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and grow Apple’s foundational privacy-focused cloud platform.
  • Develop features and functionality to enable new experiences across the Apple ecosystem.
  • Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of cloud services.
  • Evolve system design and architecture to support continued growth across multiple dimensions.
  • Triage, investigate, and remediate production issues in partnership with SRE teams.
  • Implement and operate highly scalable distributed systems.
  • Perform performance benchmarking, debugging, and tuning for distributed systems.
  • Manage cloud deployment and observability technologies like Kubernetes.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems.
  • Industry experience with programming languages such as Java, Swift, C/C++, or Go.
  • Experience in performance benchmarking, debugging, and tuning distributed systems.
  • Experience in cloud deployment and observability technologies, such as Kubernetes.
  • Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to build relationships with diverse groups of people (preferred).
  • Experienced in managing technical and organizational complexity to drive projects from idea to production (preferred).
  • Understanding of cryptographic protocols, data encryption, secure key management, and security architecture (preferred).

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