Senior Backend Engineer, Emerging Tech Platform

Apple Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Singapore is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design and develop the control plane of our security platform within the Emerging Technologies group.

The role emphasizes building high‑performance, scalable distributed systems and close collaboration with cross‑functional teams. You will lead data pipelines, microservices, and observability initiatives while partnering with security researchers and data scientists to deliver robust, industry-leading capabilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of software development experience.
• 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 ("You Build It, You Own It"): 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

Exception handling

JVM tuning

Education

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

Tools

Hibernate/JPA

Docker

Kubernetes

RESTful APIs

TCP/IP networking

HTTP/HTTPS proxies

Job description

Apple Inc. in Singapore is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design and develop the control plane of our security platform within the Emerging Technologies group.

The role emphasizes building high‑performance, scalable distributed systems and close collaboration with cross‑functional teams. You will lead data pipelines, microservices, and observability initiatives while partnering with security researchers and data scientists to deliver robust, industry-leading capabilities.