Senior Cloud Services Engineer - Distributed Systems

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,700 - 324,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Medical and dental coverage

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation eligibility

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure. You will work on CloudKit, a privacy-focused database powering iCloud experiences across Apple devices.

Responsibilities include designing a multi-tenant platform, collaborating with teams to ship features, and scaling high-throughput services while ensuring reliability and strong user privacy.

Qualifications

• 7+ 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 DBs

Async I/O frameworks

Concurrent programming

Large-scale distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

FoundationDB

DynamoDB

Cassandra

Redis

Kafka

AWS/GCP

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure. You will work on CloudKit, a privacy-focused database powering iCloud experiences across Apple devices.

Responsibilities include designing a multi-tenant platform, collaborating with teams to ship features, and scaling high-throughput services while ensuring reliability and strong user privacy.