Senior Software Engineer, Observability & CloudOps

Apple Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock programs

Educational expense reimbursement

Medical and dental coverage

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Apple Services Engineering in San Francisco.

You will design and build fault-tolerant distributed systems powering observability across CloudKit and iCloud services, operating within Kubernetes and across large-scale data processing pipelines. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architecture decisions, and production ownership, with opportunities to apply ML techniques to operational problems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience developing software in Java or a similar language.
• Strong background in designing, building, and operating backend services and distributed systems.
• Experience in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments.
• Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent job-related experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support distributed applications and services that ingest and process massive volumes of operational data.
• Integrate with large-scale data processing engines (e.g., Spark, Trino, Flink) as part of a broader service architecture.
• Collaborate with teams across iCloud to understand their systems and deliver the insights and tooling they need to operate with confidence.
• 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

Java

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Backend services

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering-related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Apple Services Engineering in San Francisco.

You will design and build fault-tolerant distributed systems powering observability across CloudKit and iCloud services, operating within Kubernetes and across large-scale data processing pipelines. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architecture decisions, and production ownership, with opportunities to apply ML techniques to operational problems.