Backend Engineer, Security Platform & Real-Time Data

Apple Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Backend Software Engineer for Emerging Technology Solutions in Singapore. You will design and develop Apple’s perimeter security solution, building scalable data pipelines and highly available micro-services to protect mission-critical services.

The role demands hands-on coding, deep Java experience, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, high-performance distributed systems and secure platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of software development experience.
• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• Mastery of Core Java, OOP, multithreading, collections, and exception handling.
• Experience with Hibernate or JPA for object-relational mapping.
• Proficient in building RESTful web services and APIs.
• Expertise in JVM tuning, profiling, and optimizing Java applications.
• Familiar with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Good understanding of IP networking, BGP, NAT, and TCP/IP.

Responsibilities

• Data Engineering Leadership: Lead the architectural design and implementation of scalable, low-latency batch and real-time data pipelines to aggregate, process, and analyze massive volumes of security data.
• Platform Engineering Leadership: Architect, deploy, and scale highly resilient micro-services and platform infrastructure supporting mission-critical, customer-facing anti-abuse engines.
• Culture & Ownership: Champion a 'You Build It, You Own It' engineering culture by setting architectural standards and taking end-to-end accountability for system health, performance, deployment automation, and operational readiness.
• Business Continuity & Resilience: Architect robust system automation, auto-healing mechanisms, chaos testing, and CI/CD pipelines to guarantee business continuity and rapid disaster recovery.
• AI Enablement & Developer Velocity: Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and modern software engineering practices across the team to accelerate development velocity, elevate code quality, and solve multi-domain technical challenges.
• Data Architecture: Design and optimize large-scale distributed NoSQL, relational, and in-memory data architectures for real-time risk evaluation, pattern matching, and high-frequency aggregate state lookup.
• Observability Strategy: Define and implement enterprise-grade observability, telemetry, and alerting strategies to proactively identify performance degradation, data quality issues, and security threats.
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, while partnering with cross-functional security researchers, data scientists, and senior leadership across Apple to drive long-term technical strategy.

Skills

Core Java

OOP

Multithreading

Collections

Exception handling

RESTful APIs

JVM tuning

Docker

Kubernetes

IP networking

HTTP proxies

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related engineering field

Tools

Hibernate/JPA

Docker

Kubernetes

CRDs

Job description

Apple is seeking a Backend Software Engineer for Emerging Technology Solutions in Singapore. You will design and develop Apple’s perimeter security solution, building scalable data pipelines and highly available micro-services to protect mission-critical services.

The role demands hands-on coding, deep Java experience, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, high-performance distributed systems and secure platforms.