Real-Time Data Streaming Engineer — Scale and Edge Delivery

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Data Solutions team within Data Services, responsible for building and evolving distributed data systems powering Apple’s services.

You will work on high-scale streaming and data processing, tackling cross-datacenter replication and edge delivery to hundreds of millions of users. The role focuses on real-time streaming, low-latency data infrastructure, and automation, with ownership from internals to observability and

Qualifications

• 1–5 years of professional experience in server-side Java development with strong concurrency and performance focus.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, fault tolerance, and system performance.
• Experience with RESTful API design and service-oriented architectures.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex business needs into technical specifications.
• Design, build, and deploy high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Lead end-to-end software development and production services for large-scale data movement and storage.
• Lead technical design reviews and set architectural standards across teams.
• Identify bottlenecks and propose innovative technical solutions.
• Own research and PoC projects to evaluate emerging technologies.

Skills

Java

Concurrency

Memory management

Performance

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

SOA

Data structures

Algorithms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Cassandra

Redis

Kafka

Schema Registry

Object Store

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Data Solutions team within Data Services, responsible for building and evolving distributed data systems powering Apple’s services.

You will work on high-scale streaming and data processing, tackling cross-datacenter replication and edge delivery to hundreds of millions of users. The role focuses on real-time streaming, low-latency data infrastructure, and automation, with ownership from internals to observability and