Are you passionate about building systems that empower creativity? Join a rapidly growing team within Apple Services to build the robust infrastructure and data pipelines driving our Creativity and InfoApps. Your work will directly support the tools that inspire millions of creators and users daily across all iOS and macOS devices. You will be part of a tight-knit, highly collaborative engineering group dedicated to product excellence.
We are looking for exceptional engineers who specialize in building resilient, fault-tolerant distributed systems. You will stand out by demonstrating unique leadership abilities and a talent for navigating complex technical challenges, all while maintaining a relentless focus on the end-user experience.
In this role, you will take deep technical ownership of a high-throughput, multi-tenant platform. You will drive projects completely end-to-end, from initial architecture and design reviews through to seamless production releases. Leveraging your strong technical background and deep understanding of scalable backend architectures, you will ensure our services meet strict requirements for scalability, high availability, and low latency. Beyond just writing code, you will act as a key partner to teams across Apple, translating complex requirements into robust backend solutions that directly enable new customer-facing features.
Design, develop, and support a multi-tenant platform with many underlying technologies
Partner with teams across Apple to develop and ship new customer-facing features
Drive end-to-end project execution, from design reviews through production releases
Deploy, scale, and maintain highly concurrent and throughput-intensive services
Triage, investigate, and remediate production and operational issues
5+ years of experience developing software in Java, including advanced object-oriented design and development
Demonstrated experience building and operating distributed systems with strict requirements for scalability, high availability, and low latency
Experience working with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologies
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Strong fundamentals in storage systems
Familiarity with high-performance caching mechanisms
Familiarity with event streaming and queueing systems
Prior experience with media processing
Hands-on experience working with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and technologies
Strong problem-solving skills
We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.