Lead Distributed Systems Engineer: Scale & Reliability

Apple; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Lead (Principal) Distributed Systems Engineer to design and build massively scalable, highly available services powering customer experiences. You will lead the development of high-throughput backend services and drive a multi-tenant platform, including AI/ML-powered services, from design through production.

You will mentor the team, champion best practices for concurrency, fault tolerance, and low latency, and collaborate with various Apple teams to deliver customer-facing,

Qualifications

• Master's degree in CS or related field.
• 15+ years in software development building scalable distributed systems.
• At least 5 years in Principal or Sr. Staff level roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and build of scalable features and services.
• Oversee large-scale backend services with high availability.
• Collaborate with Apple teams to ship performant APIs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Concurrency

Spring Boot

Golang/C++

JVM tuning

API design

System architecture

REST/gRPC

Testing (JUnit/Mockito)

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Spring Boot

Netty/Reactive stacks

Kafka

Docker/Kubernetes

Jenkins/GitHub Actions

Protobuf/Schema Registry

Job description

Apple is seeking a Lead (Principal) Distributed Systems Engineer to design and build massively scalable, highly available services powering customer experiences. You will lead the development of high-throughput backend services and drive a multi-tenant platform, including AI/ML-powered services, from design through production.

You will mentor the team, champion best practices for concurrency, fault tolerance, and low latency, and collaborate with various Apple teams to deliver customer-facing,