Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - Privacy-First, Scalable

Apple Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 394,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Retirement benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Principal Software Engineer to help build the next generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure. You will contribute to CloudKit, Apple’s privacy-focused data platform, storing user data and keeping it synchronized across devices.

You will design fault-tolerant distributed systems, lead cross-team efforts, and drive production releases for high-scale services, working with Java, C, or C++ and modern cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of industry experience developing software in Java, C, or C++.
• Experience with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologies.
• Expertise in synchronous and asynchronous network 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

NoSQL

SQL

Kubernetes

gRPC

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

FoundationDB

DynamoDB

Cassandra

Kafka

Redis

Memcached

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Principal Software Engineer to help build the next generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure. You will contribute to CloudKit, Apple’s privacy-focused data platform, storing user data and keeping it synchronized across devices.

You will design fault-tolerant distributed systems, lead cross-team efforts, and drive production releases for high-scale services, working with Java, C, or C++ and modern cloud technologies.