Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Scalable, Privacy-Focused

Apple; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in San Francisco seeks an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next generation of CloudKit, Apple's privacy-focused database platform that securely stores users’ data and synchronizes it across devices. You will design, build, and maintain multi-tenant cloud services, partner with teams across Apple, and drive end-to-end delivery while ensuring strong privacy and security standards.

The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, large-scale data stores, and

Qualifications

• 15+ years of industry experience developing software in Java, C, or C++.
• Experience working with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologies.
• Expertise in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworks.
• Expertise in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments.
• Industry experience building and operating large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support a multi-tenant platform with many underlying technologies.
• Partner with teams across Apple to develop and ship new customer-facing features.
• Drive end-to-end project execution, from design reviews and through production releases.
• Deploy, scale, and maintain highly concurrent and throughput-intensive services.
• Triage, investigate, and remediate production and operational issues.

Skills

Java

C

C++

Distributed systems

Multithreading

Network I/O

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or related field

Tools

FoundationDB

DynamoDB

Cassandra

Redis

Memcached

Kafka

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

gRPC

Job description

Apple in San Francisco seeks an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next generation of CloudKit, Apple's privacy-focused database platform that securely stores users’ data and synchronizes it across devices. You will design, build, and maintain multi-tenant cloud services, partner with teams across Apple, and drive end-to-end delivery while ensuring strong privacy and security standards.

The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, large-scale data stores, and