Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, Streaming Platform

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Employee stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Streaming Platform and Solutions team in Seattle. You will help build data infrastructure powering Apple Music, TV, and Podcasts, tackling low-latency streaming, cross-datacenter replication, and edge delivery.

You will own platforms end-to-end, participate in architectural reviews, and work with Kafka-based pipelines, cloud tech, and observability tooling to ensure reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in server-side Java development.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, fault tolerance, and system performance.
• Experience with RESTful API design and service-oriented architectures.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex business needs into clear, actionable technical specifications.
• Design, build, and deploy high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems capable of scaling under heavy production loads.
• Lead end-to-end software development and take full ownership of production services that drive large-scale data movement and storage capabilities.
• Lead and actively participate in technical design reviews, helping set architectural standards and best practices across engineering groups.
• Gain deep domain expertise to proactively identify system bottlenecks and propose innovative technical solutions.
• Take ownership of independent research and proof-of-concept projects to evaluate emerging technologies and address complex engineering challenges.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Concurrency

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Cassandra

Redis

Schema Registry

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Streaming Platform and Solutions team in Seattle. You will help build data infrastructure powering Apple Music, TV, and Podcasts, tackling low-latency streaming, cross-datacenter replication, and edge delivery.

You will own platforms end-to-end, participate in architectural reviews, and work with Kafka-based pipelines, cloud tech, and observability tooling to ensure reliability at scale.