Platform Engineer: TSDB Control Plane & Observability Tools

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a versatile engineer for the Observability team within ASE to design, build, and operate the control plane tooling for our time series database at scale. You will own end-to-end delivery from requirements to on-call support, balancing product features with reliability.

You will collaborate across software engineering and data platforms, contribute to distributed systems, and drive automation, provisioning, orchestration, and self-healing capabilities in production.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in CS or equivalent5+ years of industry experience.
• Deep understanding of core CS concepts including data structures, algorithms, and concurrent programming.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or Python.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable infrastructure services in production.
• Deep understanding and work experience in distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience building automation and tooling for deployment, orchestration, and operations at scale.
• Strong attention to detail, excellent analytical capabilities, and a bias toward reducing operational toil.
• Passion for developing clear, robust, and maintainable software and systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the control plane that makes our TSDB reliable, scalable, and easy to operate.
• Move between building operational tooling and shipping core product features.
• Own problems end to end, from requirement gathering through design, implementation, rollout, and on-call operability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to design and implement provisioning, orchestration, scaling, health monitoring, and self-healing capabilities.

Skills

Data structures

Algorithms

Concurrent programming

Distributed systems

Java/Scala/Go/Python

Automation tooling

On-call operability

OpenTelemetry/Observability

Education

BS in CS or equivalent

MS in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Custom controllers

Operators

Job description

Apple is seeking a versatile engineer for the Observability team within ASE to design, build, and operate the control plane tooling for our time series database at scale. You will own end-to-end delivery from requirements to on-call support, balancing product features with reliability.

You will collaborate across software engineering and data platforms, contribute to distributed systems, and drive automation, provisioning, orchestration, and self-healing capabilities in production.