Senior Cloud Services Engineer — Fault-Tolerant Systems

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure.

You will work on CloudKit, Apple’s privacy-focused database foundation powering iCloud data synchronization across devices. You will design and implement fault-tolerant distributed systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive features from design through production.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience in Java, C, or C++.
• Experience with distributed NoSQL and relational databases.
• Proficiency with synchronous and asynchronous network I/O frameworks.
• Expertise in concurrent and multi-threaded environments.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Java/C/C++

Distributed DBs

Network I/O frameworks

Concurrency

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

FoundationDB

DynamoDB

Cassandra

Job description

Apple Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure.

You will work on CloudKit, Apple’s privacy-focused database foundation powering iCloud data synchronization across devices. You will design and implement fault-tolerant distributed systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive features from design through production.