Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infra (Privacy-first)

Apple, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking Software Engineers to contribute to the next generation of cloud services infrastructure. You will work on core components of iCloud, enabling new capabilities and scaling existing ones such as CloudKit, FaceTime, and PushNotifications for iCloud Photos, Drive, and Backup.

As part of a high‑leverage team, you will help design and grow Apple’s foundational privacy‑focused platform that serves over a billion users.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with programming languages such as Java, Swift, C/C++, or Go.
• Experience in performance benchmarking, debugging, and tuning distributed systems.
• Experience in cloud deployment and observability technologies, such as Kubernetes.
• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality to enable new experiences in the Apple ecosystem
• Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of our services
• Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth across multiple dimensions
• Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Swift

C/C++

Go

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple is seeking Software Engineers to contribute to the next generation of cloud services infrastructure. You will work on core components of iCloud, enabling new capabilities and scaling existing ones such as CloudKit, FaceTime, and PushNotifications for iCloud Photos, Drive, and Backup.

As part of a high‑leverage team, you will help design and grow Apple’s foundational privacy‑focused platform that serves over a billion users.