Senior Backend Engineer, Edge Infrastructure

Apple, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Employee stock purchase plan

Stock-based compensation programs

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer for Infrastructure Services in Seattle to drive the evolution of backend systems and their architectures. You will contribute infrastructure code across teams, optimize large databases, and help deliver reliable services at global scale.

The ideal candidate has deep backend know-how, strong debugging, and collaboration skills, with a focus on customer experience and operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent job-related experience.
• 5+ years experience in a software engineering role.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, C/C++, or similar.
• Experience designing and building backend systems like services, APIs, job pipelines, automation tools or other.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable backend services and infrastructure components used in production at high scale
• Design and implement improvements related to availability, performance, resiliency, and automation
• Troubleshoot production issues using strong debugging practices, metrics, logs, and traces
• Contribute to on-call rotations and help improve operational excellence through runbooks and tooling
• Work closely with cross-functional engineering partners to deliver features safely and incrementally
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and continuous improvements of engineering practices

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Go/Python/C/C++

Backend systems design

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Redis

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

Apple is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer for Infrastructure Services in Seattle to drive the evolution of backend systems and their architectures. You will contribute infrastructure code across teams, optimize large databases, and help deliver reliable services at global scale.

The ideal candidate has deep backend know-how, strong debugging, and collaboration skills, with a focus on customer experience and operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.