Senior Distributed Systems Engineer: Scale High-Performance

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Relocation support

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, seeks a Senior Software Engineer focused on distributed systems to help build high‑performance infrastructure, storage and backend services for Apple-scale workloads.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to refine requirements and deliver scalable, reliable solutions that empower other engineers. The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering, performance optimization, observability, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with high-performance, strongly typed languages such as Go, Rust, Scala.
• Experience with building and operating distributed systems.
• Familiarity with large infrastructure systems like Kubernetes.
• Strong interest in distributed storage, observability, reliability, and cloud services.
• Experience debugging memory and concurrency issues across the stack.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Engineer distributed services, tooling, and operational standards.
• Collaborate with teams to refine requirements and implement lasting solutions.
• Drive service scalability, resiliency, and performance.
• Take ownership over components critical to Apple's success.
• Optimize system performance through algorithm design and testing.
• Scale services to ever-increasing problem sizes.
• Improve service operability using metrics and log data.

Skills

Go

Rust

Scala

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Observability

Performance tuning

OS-level debugging

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, seeks a Senior Software Engineer focused on distributed systems to help build high‑performance infrastructure, storage and backend services for Apple-scale workloads.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to refine requirements and deliver scalable, reliable solutions that empower other engineers. The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering, performance optimization, observability, and reliability.