Backend Engineer – Real-Time Service Observability

Apple, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking a senior backend and systems engineer for the Apple Services Engineering team responsible for powering large-scale services across App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and more.

You will build secure, scalable backend services, data pipelines, and observability tools to ensure reliability across Apple’s global cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes building high-quality software, mentoring engineers, and applying emerging technologies like generative AI to solve

Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling high-performance backend services and APIs (GraphQL/REST/gRPC).
• Experience building large-scale data pipelines with Spark or Flink.
• Designing cloud-native, distributed systems with microservices and Kubernetes.
• Strong fundamentals in relational and NoSQL databases.
• Commitment to high-quality software with CI/CD and performance tuning.
• Experience with observability tools like Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data pipelines

Cloud-native systems

Microservices

Security fundamentals

Observability tooling

Mentoring

Generative AI

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Job description

Apple, Inc. is seeking a senior backend and systems engineer for the Apple Services Engineering team responsible for powering large-scale services across App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and more.

You will build secure, scalable backend services, data pipelines, and observability tools to ensure reliability across Apple’s global cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes building high-quality software, mentoring engineers, and applying emerging technologies like generative AI to solve