Sr. Solutions Architect-Customer Systems

Apple Inc

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Austin, TX
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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. Solutions Architect-Customer Systems

As a Senior Solutions Architect on Apple's Digital team, you will lead the design of customer-facing support apps and tools used by millions globally. Your role involves defining architecture and technical strategy across cross-functional teams, ensuring that systems are scalable, reliable, and user-centric. You will collaborate with product owners to prioritize features, write technical specifications, and drive architectural decisions for high-throughput, low-latency systems. Key responsibilities include setting service level agreements, designing fault-tolerant systems, and facilitating communication between business and engineering teams. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in system design or architecture, with expertise in modern backend stacks like Java/Go/Python, NoSQL databases, and relational databases. This role demands a passion for quality and the ability to champion ideas across various technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What you'll do

  • Define architecture and technical strategy for cross-functional teams.
  • Drive alignment on technical priorities with engineering and management.
  • Design high-throughput, low-latency systems serving millions of users simultaneously.
  • Collaborate with product owners to prioritize trade-offs and clarify requirements.
  • Facilitate communication between business and engineering teams to resolve issues.
  • Define SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for operational efficiency and reliability.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on system design or technical architecture for large-scale, customer-facing production systems.
  • Proven ability to design and document engineering specifications including API contracts, data flow diagrams, and interface definitions.
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability under variable traffic loads.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
  • Familiarity with modern backend stacks and data store technologies such as Java, Go, Python, NoSQL databases like MongoDB or Couchbase, and relational databases.

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