Software Engineering Technical Lead, Server Energy Services

Apple Inc.; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 309,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Education reimbursement

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Diego, California, is seeking a Software Engineering Technical Lead for the Server Energy Services platform. You will architect and evolve services, collaborate with server and client teams, and drive scalability and resilience for millions of users.

You will mentor peers, influence roadmaps, and work with energy partners to define product objectives and integrations. A strong background in distributed systems and JVM-based services is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years as lead/architect.
• Experience architecting, building, shipping, and scaling distributed JVM-based systems.
• Ability to drive architecture and roadmaps across multiple engineers/teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs, latency, throughput and failures.
• Commitment to engineering excellence and evaluating new technologies.
• Influence across teams and communicate with senior leadership and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, secure services with resilience for partner integrations.
• Provide strategic technical direction for the Energy Services platform.
• Collaborate with platform teams to align shared systems and interfaces.
• Champion engineering best practices across Energy services.
• Lead technical discussions, write specs, mentor peers, review code/designs.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and external energy partners on objectives and integrations.

Skills

Software leadership

Distributed systems

JVM architecture

Communication

Mentoring

Security and privacy

Education

BS Degree or equivalent

Tools

Java/Kotlin

Spring

gRPC

Temporal

Aurora

DynamoDB

Job description

Software Engineering Technical Lead, Server Energy Services

San Diego, California, United States Software and Services

At Apple, great ideas quickly become phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences. Join us in building the future of energy! One way we are making the world better is our Apple 2030 initiative — a commitment to become carbon neutral across our entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030, including the electricity used to power Apple devices. We build robust, highly scalable services that support this mission, working across distributed systems, security, and privacy with a focus on reliability and disruptive, meaningful impact.

Description

You will help architect and evolve the Energy Services platform, shaping how it scales and stays resilient as we add new features and partner integrations. Working closely with server and client teams, you will design and build services and APIs that support millions of users, while continuing to raise the bar on scalability and resilience. You'll also have the opportunity to be involved with early development investigations, prototypes, and 3rd-party integrations for one of Apple's most innovative spaces.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate services for scalability, resilience, security, and privacy, with fault isolation and graceful degradation at partner integrations.
• Provide strategic technical direction for the Energy Services platform.
• Collaborate closely with platform teams across the broader Energy Services ecosystem to ensure alignment across shared systems and interfaces.
• Champion technical excellence and best engineering practices across all Energy services.
• Drive technical discussions, write specifications, mentor peers, and review code and designs.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams and external energy partners to define product objectives and integrations.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, including 3+ years as a tech lead/architect.
• Extensive experience architecting, building, shipping, and scaling mission-critical distributed systems on the JVM.
• Track record of driving architecture and technical roadmaps across multiple engineers, services, or teams.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and the trade-offs in consistency, latency, throughput, and failure modes.
• A commitment to engineering excellence, with curiosity to evaluate and advocate for new technologies and patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architectural and cross-functional decisions, build strong working relationships across teams, and drive complex projects from conception to production.
• Clear and effective communicator across technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership and external partners.
• BS Degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong DevOps and platform engineering experience — containerization and orchestration, cloud-native services, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with durable workflow orchestration platforms (e.g., Temporal).
• Significant hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases at scale (e.g., Aurora, DynamoDB).
• Solid understanding of security, privacy, and applied cryptography — PKI, certificate management, and JWT.
• Experience with Java/Kotlin, Spring, and gRPC.
• Proven experience onboarding and integrating with external partners.
• Hands-on experience using generative AI tools to accelerate software development.
• Domain knowledge of the utility industry, electrical grid, or renewable energy.

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 $205,400 and $308,500, 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. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and 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. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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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