Lead Staff Engineer, Object Storage - Exabyte-Scale

Apple Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Object Storage in London to lead architecture and drive large-scale storage initiatives. You will own multi-tenant isolation, durability, performance, and scalability while shaping platform direction across teams.

You will mentor engineers, tackle complex, ambiguous problems end-to-end, and influence design choices that affect hundreds of internal services at exabyte scale. This role sits in a high-impact cloud storage group in London.

Qualifications

• In-depth backend software engineering experience with CS fundamentals.
• Experience designing, building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to drive complex technical projects end-to-end and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Identify and lead major projects impacting reliability, performance, and scalability of the storage platform.
• Drive architecture and design decisions and represent direction in cross-team discussions.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar in testing and observability.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Networking

Filesystems

Tools

Observability tools

Load balancing

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Object Storage in London to lead architecture and drive large-scale storage initiatives. You will own multi-tenant isolation, durability, performance, and scalability while shaping platform direction across teams.

You will mentor engineers, tackle complex, ambiguous problems end-to-end, and influence design choices that affect hundreds of internal services at exabyte scale. This role sits in a high-impact cloud storage group in London.