Staff Cloud Platform Engineer, iCloud Services

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 374,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Apple stock programs

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple in Seattle, WA is seeking Software Engineers to contribute to the development of cloud services infrastructure, including iCloud, CloudKit, FaceTime, and PushNotifications. You will join a privacy-focused team designing foundational platform services that power Apple’s signature apps and experiences for over a billion users.

The role emphasizes building scalable distributed systems, with opportunities to work on security-focused architectures and performance optimization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems.
• Industry 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.

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

Java

Swift

C/C++

Go

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple in Seattle, WA is seeking Software Engineers to contribute to the development of cloud services infrastructure, including iCloud, CloudKit, FaceTime, and PushNotifications. You will join a privacy-focused team designing foundational platform services that power Apple’s signature apps and experiences for over a billion users.

The role emphasizes building scalable distributed systems, with opportunities to work on security-focused architectures and performance optimization.