Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Hyperscale Backend Platform

APPLE; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in the United Kingdom is seeking a backend engineer to join the infra group responsible for the next-generation platform powering iCloud and backend services. You will build API-driven services with precision and resilience, and have ownership over projects across time zones.

Experience in distributed systems, leadership of projects or small teams, and expertise with modern languages is essential to deliver production-impacting work.

Qualifications

• Proven backend software engineer with experience in Golang (preferred), C++, Java or Python.
• Successful track-record leading projects from design to launch.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading and distributed applications.
• Knowledge of distributed system concepts (CAP, microservices, self-healing).
• Experience with SDLC, CI/CD, testing, and Agile development.
• Understanding of containerization, virtualization, and agents.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from design to launch in fast-changing environments.
• Develop API-driven services with precision and resilience.
• Collaborate across timezones to deliver production-impacting work.

Skills

Project leadership

Distributed systems

Multi-threading

CI/CD

APIs

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

MAAS

xCat

Netbox

Tinkerbell

CloudStack

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Cassandra

Redis

Memcached

React

Angular

jQuery

Job description

Apple in the United Kingdom is seeking a backend engineer to join the infra group responsible for the next-generation platform powering iCloud and backend services. You will build API-driven services with precision and resilience, and have ownership over projects across time zones.

Experience in distributed systems, leadership of projects or small teams, and expertise with modern languages is essential to deliver production-impacting work.