Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Apple; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

Employee stock programs

Relocation assistance

Education reimbursement

Discretionary bonus/RSU

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Distributed Systems in San Diego, CA. You will join a cross-functional team to design and implement streaming ingestion pipelines, processing petabytes of diagnostic data from Apple devices daily.

The role emphasizes scalable services, cross-team collaboration, and impact across Apple platforms. Qualified candidates have 3-5+ years in distributed systems, strong experience with Kubernetes and public clouds, and solid CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3-5+ years experience working on large distributed systems, ideally on a public cloud platform.
• Extensive experience with container-based orchestration (Kubernetes, EC2, GCP, etc.).
• Practical knowledge of queue/stream consumers like Flink and Kafka.
• Highly proficient with agentic development techniques.
• Unwavering commitment to CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and iterate on streaming ingestion pipelines and services.
• Parse, persist, and analyze diagnostic and usage data from devices.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers across Apple to refine requirements and validate designs.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

CI/CD

Public cloud platforms

Agentic development techniques

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

EC2

GCP

Flink

Kafka

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

San Diego, California, United States Software and Services

Are you ready to embrace massive scale? Undaunted ingesting petabytes of raw data each day from more than a billion customer devices?Apple's Data Analytics team is looking for a motivated and driven distributed systems engineer to work on our device telemetry platform. We need a talented software developer to join our tight-knit cross-functional engineering team, building services and applications to parse, persist, and understand how Apple customers use their devices.

Description

We collect, analyze, and produce insights from diagnostic and usage data from Apple devices. Our data is used to improve products and services and inform the overall direction of Apple platforms.Our engineering responsibility spans device, data collection, compute, and query and visualization interfaces. As part of the Data Analytics team, you will similarly work cross-functionally to design, build, and iterate on our stream processing and ingestion pipeline.Collaborating with data scientists and engineers across Apple, you will capture and refine requirements, validate design decisions, and implement. This role has high visibility and impact within the Apple Software Engineering organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 3-5+ years experience working on large distributed systems, ideally on a public cloud platform
• Extensive experience with container-based orchestration (Kubernetes, EC2, GCP, etc.)
• Practical knowledge of queue/stream consumers like Flink and Kafka
• Highly proficient with agentic development techniques
• Unwavering commitment to CI/CD

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to profiling and optimization of scale compute and data pipelines
• Comfortable and adaptable in a dynamic/informal environment with shifting priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated and dedicated with creative and critical thinking capabilities

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $142,300 and $263,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

• Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs.
• Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• retirement benefits
• a range of discounted products and free services
• for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition.
• Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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