Principal Distributed Systems Architect

Socket.dev; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple's Special Services Team seeks a Lead Distributed Systems Engineer to design and build massively scalable, low-latency backend services for customer experiences. You will own real-time to analytics workloads, and push forward a multi-tenant platform including AI/ML capabilities.

You will advance distributed-systems best practices from design to production, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across large-scale services.

Qualifications

• Master's degree and 15+ years of software development experience in scalable distributed systems.
• Experience in principal or senior staff roles with multi-tenant, high-availability services.
• Strong concurrency, data structures, and algorithm design knowledge.
• Proficiency in Java; knowledge of Go or C++ is a plus.
• Experience with Spring Boot and JVM performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Design and build massively scalable, high-availability backend services.
• Ingest, process, and serve data at scale across workloads from real-time to analytics.
• Drive evolution of a multi-tenant platform including AI/ML-powered services.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Go

C++

Spring Boot

JVM tuning

Async/reactive stacks

gRPC

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Gradle

CI/CD

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Gradle

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple's Special Services Team seeks a Lead Distributed Systems Engineer to design and build massively scalable, low-latency backend services for customer experiences. You will own real-time to analytics workloads, and push forward a multi-tenant platform including AI/ML capabilities.

You will advance distributed-systems best practices from design to production, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across large-scale services.