Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Apple Inc

Cupertino, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Algorithms, Apple, Automation Systems, Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Computer Skills, Concurrency, Debugging Skills, Distributed Computing, Engineering, Go Programming Language (Golang), Home Automation, Incident Management, Incident Response, Machine Tool, Memory Hardware, Metrics, Operating Systems, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Rust Programming Language, Scala Programming Language, Software Engineering, Technical Support, Test Design
LOCATION
Cupertino, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Our team is on a mission to build innovative infrastructure and tools to help other engineers be more productive and make software easier to create, build and distribute. We believe that streamlining software engineering is an important part of unlocking developer creativity and innovation, and we love it when Apple customers see that in the products we ship. We are looking for technically hands-on engineers who want to ship high-performance distributed systems that solve real-world problems at Apple scale. You would join a team of engineers who build innovative storage and backend service while tackling interesting challenges in a supportive, balanced environment. We spend most of our time building software and automation, but equally important is the work we do collaborating with teams across Apple, understanding their operational challenges, and iterating on scalable, long-term solutions together.

In your role as an engineer on our team you will:

  • Engineer distributed services, tooling, and operational standards
  • Collaborate with teams to refine requirements and implement lasting solutions
  • Drive service scalability, resiliency, and performance
  • Take ownership over components critical to Apples success
  • Optimize system performance through algorithm design and testing
  • Scale services to ever-increasing problem sizes
  • Improve service operability using metrics and log data5+ years of professional software engineering experience Experience with high-performance, strongly typed languages such as Go, Rust, Scala, or others. Experience with building and operating distributed systems. Familiarity with some large infrastructure systems like Kubernetes. Strong interest in distributed storage, observability, reliability, and cloud services. Interest in working across different levels of the stack, including debugging OS-level issues such as memory and concurrency problems. Ability to efficiently develop, debug, and support new technologies in a changing environment.Familiarity with application and service monitoring tools and techniques. Experience with incident management and response. Education & Experience: BS in Computer Science or equivalent, related experience.

About the Company

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Apple Inc

We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

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.

About Apple

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.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1976
WEBSITE
https://www.apple.com/jobs