Distributed Systems Engineer - Fault-Tolerant Infrastructure

JobCubby; California, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking an experienced software engineer to join a team focused on building fault‑tolerant, hyper‑scale cloud network systems. You will design and implement sensing, decision, and remediation layers to detect anomalies and automate recovery in real time.

The role emphasizes strong fundamentals in distributed systems, control theory, graph algorithms, and hands‑on experience with production‑grade infrastructure. Early‑career engineers with deep technical depth are welcome.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4–6+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating production‑grade distributed systems and backend infrastructure.
• Deep foundation in computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems architecture, concurrency models, graph algorithms, and systems design.
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems‑level or high‑performance language, such as Go, C++, Rust, or Python.
• Direct experience designing and building fault‑tolerant mechanisms, including automated self‑healing, active remediation, circuit breaking, load shedding, and blast‑radius mitigation for network services.
• Demonstrated ability to model complex failure domains, handle network partitions and split‑brain scenarios, and reason rigorously about system behavior under extreme load and degradation.
• Practical experience with chaos engineering, fault injection, simulation‑based testing, and stress testing in production or staging environments.
• Track record of technical ownership, including authoring design documents, driving code reviews, and leading post‑mortem root cause analyses.

Responsibilities

• Build fault‑tolerant, self‑healing, scalable network services for massive deployments.
• Design sensing, decision, and remediation layers to detect and remediate failures with minimal human intervention.
• Develop automated remediation actions in live production infrastructure without introducing new risk.
• Collaborate across teams to translate research ideas into production systems that run at enormous scale.

Skills

Go

C++

Rust

Python

Distributed systems

Chaos engineering

Fault-tolerant design

Graph algorithms

Concurrency models

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent practical experience

Master’s or Ph.D. in CS/Distributed Systems/Networking

Tools

eBPF

XDP

OVS

Job description

Apple is seeking an experienced software engineer to join a team focused on building fault‑tolerant, hyper‑scale cloud network systems. You will design and implement sensing, decision, and remediation layers to detect anomalies and automate recovery in real time.

The role emphasizes strong fundamentals in distributed systems, control theory, graph algorithms, and hands‑on experience with production‑grade infrastructure. Early‑career engineers with deep technical depth are welcome.