Sr. Software Engineer (Distributed System)

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$171,600–$302,200 / yr
Posted
64 days ago
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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TL;DR · Sr. Software Engineer (Distributed System)

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the distributed system team, you will play a pivotal role in building and operating a large-scale web crawl platform that continuously fetches, renders, and extracts structured knowledge from billions of web pages to power Apple's Siri, Spotlight, Apple Maps, and other intelligent services. Your daily responsibilities include working across the full lifecycle of the crawl process, managing request scheduling, page fetching and rendering, and data extraction, while ensuring strict latency service level objectives are met. You will leverage modern AI coding tools to enhance your productivity and code quality, and you must have a strong background in systems programming with experience in Rust, Scala, or Go, as well as hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, AWS services like SQS, S3, MSK (Kafka), EKS, IAM, VPC, Transit Gateways, and Kafka topic management. Additionally, familiarity with defining metrics, writing alert rules, and building dashboards for distributed services is essential.

Skills

Kubernetes AWS EKS IAM VPC Transit Gateways SQS S3 MSK Kafka Go Rust Scala async programming queue-based architectures HPA rolling deployment metrics alert rules dashboards CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Design and implement critical components of large-scale distributed web crawling systems.
  • Optimize scheduling, dispatching, fetching, rendering, and extraction processes for billions of web pages.
  • Ensure high operational reliability with strict latency Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
  • Develop and maintain complex queue-based architectures for data delivery semantics.
  • Deploy and manage workloads across heterogeneous Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments.
  • Define metrics, write alert rules, and build dashboards to monitor distributed service performance.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems
  • Strong background in Rust, Scala, or Go for systems programming
  • Expertise in async programming models and queue-based architectures
  • Deep knowledge of Cloud infrastructure deployments on EKS and bare-metal
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience including multi-cluster management
  • Proficiency with AWS services like SQS, S3, MSK (Kafka), EKS, IAM, VPC
  • Experience defining metrics, writing alert rules, and building dashboards

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