Distributed Systems Backend Engineer: Insights & Release

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a passionate Backend/DevOps Engineer for the Insights & Release Technologies team in Cupertino, CA.

You will design and maintain large backend services, ensuring they are scalable, observable, and resilient to failures while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize engineering workflows. The role emphasizes architectural leadership, mentorship, and delivering high-availability systems that power millions of Apple users.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a distributed system focusing on design, deployment, and observability.
• Proficiency with Swift on Server, Go, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of containerization, orchestration, networking, observability tools, and security.
• Experience scaling systems, performance analysis, and capacity planning for global distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Design large backend services that are robust, scalable, and observable.
• Build mechanisms to tolerate server failures and maintain service continuity.
• Deploy and manage services across multiple environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on architecture and delivery.
• Reduce operational toil by automating runbooks and tooling for production issues.
• Lead architectural discussions and guide design decisions for robustness and scalability.
• Own incident management processes to ensure high availability and rapid response.

Skills

Swift on Server

Go

Distributed systems

Observability

Containerization

Kubernetes

Networking

Security

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability tools

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a passionate Backend/DevOps Engineer for the Insights & Release Technologies team in Cupertino, CA.

You will design and maintain large backend services, ensuring they are scalable, observable, and resilient to failures while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize engineering workflows. The role emphasizes architectural leadership, mentorship, and delivering high-availability systems that power millions of Apple users.