Senior Backend Engineer, Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Employee stock purchase plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino seeks a senior backend engineer to design and operate massively scalable, low-latency services powering Apple experiences.

You will lead multi-tenant platforms, collaborate with AI/ML teams, mentor engineers, and own production-grade backend systems across real-time transactions and analytics. Strong distributed systems, Java, and JVM tuning are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Master's degree required.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building scalable, distributed systems in production.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot, plus knowledge of Go or C++.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend features and services.
• Ensure high availability and low latency across workloads.
• Collaborate with ML, search, and business teams to ship APIs.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Spring Boot

Go/C++

JVM tuning

Async / Reactive

JUnit/Mockito

Kafka

Cloud Native

Kubernetes

Gradle

Redis

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Gradle

Redis

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino seeks a senior backend engineer to design and operate massively scalable, low-latency services powering Apple experiences.

You will lead multi-tenant platforms, collaborate with AI/ML teams, mentor engineers, and own production-grade backend systems across real-time transactions and analytics. Strong distributed systems, Java, and JVM tuning are essential for success.