Software Engineer, Observability

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $175,000–$263,300 / yr
Posted: 24 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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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Software Engineer - Observability joins the Apple Services Engineering team to build foundational tools and platforms that provide insights into complex systems. This role involves designing and building control plane tooling and automation to manage a time series database in production at scale, including provisioning, orchestration, scaling, and self-healing. The engineer will also perform core developer tasks on the distributed data platform, contributing to ingestion, storage, and query paths. Key responsibilities include reducing operational toil through automation and leading technical design discussions for globally distributed clusters. Candidates should possess expertise in distributed systems, data structures, and concurrent programming. Required skills include proficiency in Java, Scala, Go, or Python, with experience in infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, and tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana. The role addresses the challenge of managing massive amounts of time series data.

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Skills

Time Series Database Distributed Systems Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana Rust Python Go Java Scala GitOps Infrastructure as Code Query Engines Columnar Storage Configuration Management

What you'll do

Design and build control plane tooling to provision, orchestrate, scale, and self-heal a production time series database.
Develop automation for deployment, configuration management, capacity planning, and fleet lifecycle management across distributed clusters.
Contribute to core developer tasks on the data platform including ingestion, storage, and query paths.
Lead technical design discussions and gather requirements from cross-functional teams.
Reduce operational toil through automation while improving reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of the fleet.
Conduct independent research and mentor other engineers on the team.

What we're looking for

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
5+ years of industry experience.
Deep understanding of core CS concepts including data structures, algorithms, and concurrent programming.
Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or Python.
Experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable infrastructure services in production.
Deep understanding and work experience in distributed systems.
Hands-on experience building automation and tooling for deployment, orchestration, and operations at scale.
Experience with control plane or fleet management for stateful systems (preferred); DevOps skills like CI/CD, Terraform, and Kubernetes (preferred).

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