Cloud Services Engineer - Privacy-Focused & Scalable

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,400 - 277,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Apple stock programs

Education reimbursement

Bonuses/commissions

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for Apple Services Engineering to help develop the next generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure.

You will work on CloudKit, a privacy-focused database powering iCloud across devices, and collaborate with teams to deliver scalable, secure features. The role emphasizes fault-tolerant distributed systems, end-to-end project execution, and close partnership with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience developing software in Java, C, or C++.
• Experience with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologies.
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous network I/O frameworks.
• Experience in multi-threaded environments.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support a multi-tenant platform with many underlying technologies
• Partner with teams across Apple to develop and ship new customer-facing features
• Drive end-to-end project execution, from design reviews and through production releases
• Deploy, scale, and maintain highly concurrent and throughput-intensive services
• Triage, investigate, and remediate production and operational issues

Skills

Java

C

C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

FoundationDB

DynamoDB

Cassandra

Kafka

Redis

Memcached

Kubernetes

gRPC

TLS

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for Apple Services Engineering to help develop the next generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure.

You will work on CloudKit, a privacy-focused database powering iCloud across devices, and collaborate with teams to deliver scalable, secure features. The role emphasizes fault-tolerant distributed systems, end-to-end project execution, and close partnership with cross-functional teams.