Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundation

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the iCloud Foundation to help build the platform layer underpinning Apple’s cloud services.

You will design and evolve APIs, frameworks, and services used by many engineering teams, balancing technical and organizational complexity to deliver production-ready solutions. You will work with Java, Kotlin, or Go in a distributed systems context, partner with cross-functional teams, and drive end-to-end project execution while

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems.
• Deep working experience with programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, or Go.
• Expertise in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments.
• Experience building platform software that other engineering teams depend on, including API design, versioning, and migration.
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support the services, frameworks, and APIs that iCloud service teams build against.
• Define and version the interfaces other teams depend on, and own the migration path when they change.
• Partner with teams across iCloud to understand their systems and deliver what they need from the platform.
• 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

Distributed systems design

Java/Kotlin/Go

Concurrent programming

Platform software

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Kafka

Cassandra

FoundationDB

DynamoDB

Kubernetes

gRPC

AWS

GCP

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the iCloud Foundation to help build the platform layer underpinning Apple’s cloud services.

You will design and evolve APIs, frameworks, and services used by many engineering teams, balancing technical and organizational complexity to deliver production-ready solutions. You will work with Java, Kotlin, or Go in a distributed systems context, partner with cross-functional teams, and drive end-to-end project execution while