Industrial Engineer

Apple; Inglewood (CA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in Inglewood, CA seeks an Industrial Engineer with strong Azure and Go skills to design and scale backend services. You will mentor a mid-level team, coordinate releases with local and remote stakeholders, and contribute to fault-tolerant distributed systems using Go and MySQL.

The role emphasizes rapid incident response, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on architectural work to support CA-wide rollout. Compensation reflects market rates for the region.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a mid-level capacity.
• Mid-level mastery of PostgreSQL, validated by people who'd hire you again.
• Familiarity with Go and related tools or frameworks.
• Experience mentoring teammates and leading on-call initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Ship microservices fixes to Apple customers in Inglewood, CA the same day they report them.
• Coordinate releases with stakeholders across Inglewood, CA and remote teams.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Empathy and Negotiation.
• Mentor the mid-level cohort through their first real Negotiation on-call at Apple.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Microsoft Azure and Go.
• Ship MySQL experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks.
• Sit with technology users in Inglewood to learn what the Negotiation tool really needs.
• Scale Apple's Go services from Inglewood pilot to CA-wide rollout.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

PostgreSQL mastery

Go programming

Mentoring / leadership

Tools

Azure

Django

MySQL

Go

PostgreSQL

Job description

Picture an Industrial Engineer role where Microsoft Azure expertise is the floor, not the ceiling, and Apple in Inglewood, CA is building exactly that. Set the $101,000 - $138,000 aside a moment and the technology ownership alone makes this Apple job worth a serious look.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship Microservices fixes to Apple customers in Inglewood, CA the same day they report them
• Coordinate releases with stakeholders across Inglewood, CA and remote teams
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Empathy and Negotiation
• Mentor the mid-level cohort through their first real Negotiation on-call at Apple
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Microsoft Azure and Go
• Ship MySQL experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Sit with technology users in Inglewood to learn what the Negotiation tool really needs
• Scale Apple's Go services from Inglewood pilot to CA-wide rollout

What You'll Bring

• The instinct to ask "what would change your mind?" before debating
• Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before
• A growth mindset and openness to constructive feedback
• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues backExperience supporting cross-functional teams in a mid-level capacity
• Mid-level mastery of PostgreSQL, validated by people who'd hire you again
• Familiarity with Go and related tools or frameworks

Apple is a metrics-driven Inglewood, CA studio where Django gets treated with the seriousness most companies reserve for marketing. At Apple we hire people we can trust with real decisions and then give them the room to make them.

We trade fair $101,000 - $138,000 for your talent and throw in mentorship, benefits, and a flexibility policy people actually use.

We just reopened this Industrial Engineer req and are eager to meet new people.