Senior Observability Platform Engineer (Go)

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 216,200 - 324,800; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Observability Solutions) to architect and lead backend services in Go for a scalable observability platform. You will shape system design, mentor engineers, and own critical components end-to-end.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, performance optimization, and collaboration across teams to deliver reliable, high-volume services for enterprise-scale workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent required.
• 3+ years of Go experience.
• Hands-on with large data workloads and databases (RDBMS or NoSQL) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver highly available, fault-tolerant distributed system at petabyte scale.
• Design and build core backend services in Go with performance, correctness, and operational simplicity in mind.
• Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Prometheus

Elasticsearch

APM tools

Job description

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Observability Solutions) to architect and lead backend services in Go for a scalable observability platform. You will shape system design, mentor engineers, and own critical components end-to-end.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, performance optimization, and collaboration across teams to deliver reliable, high-volume services for enterprise-scale workloads.