Cloud Systems Engineer - Scalable, Privacy‑Focused Platform

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple is seeking Software Engineers to contribute to the development of the next generation of cloud services infrastructure in Seattle. You will work on core components of iCloud and scale existing services such as CloudKit, FaceTime, and PushNotifications, enabling new apps while maintaining strong privacy guarantees.

You will join a high‑impact team designing, building, and operating a privacy‑focused platform that supports Apple's services for over a billion users, with opportunities to grow

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with Java, Swift, C/C++, or Go.
• Cloud deployment and observability technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering‑related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams across Apple to develop features enabling new experiences in the Apple ecosystem.
• Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of our services.
• Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth across multiple dimensions.
• Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Java

Swift

C/C++

Go

Performance tuning

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple is seeking Software Engineers to contribute to the development of the next generation of cloud services infrastructure in Seattle. You will work on core components of iCloud and scale existing services such as CloudKit, FaceTime, and PushNotifications, enabling new apps while maintaining strong privacy guarantees.

You will join a high‑impact team designing, building, and operating a privacy‑focused platform that supports Apple's services for over a billion users, with opportunities to grow