TSDB Observability Platform Engineer — Automation

Apple Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle is seeking a versatile software engineer for the Observability team within Apple Services Engineering to design and build the control plane tooling that operates our time series database in production at scale.

You will own provisioning, orchestration, scaling, health, and self-healing, while also contributing to ingestion, storage, and query paths, and mentoring peers to reduce toil and improve reliability for millions of Apple users.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in CS or equivalent.
• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, Go, or Python.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable infrastructure services in production.
• Deep understanding and work experience in distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience building automation and tooling for deployment, orchestration, and operations at scale.
• Attention to detail and analytical mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design and build control plane tooling to provision, orchestrate, scale, upgrade, and self-heal a time series database operating in production at scale.
• Automate deployment, configuration management, capacity planning, and fleet lifecycle management across globally distributed clusters.
• Wearing multiple hats: contribute to core TSDB and distributed data services, including ingestion, storage, and query paths.
• Lead technical design discussions across cross-functional teams.
• Drive down operational toil through automation and improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of the fleet.
• Mentor other engineers and share domain knowledge while moving fast.

Skills

Go

Java

Scala

Python

Distributed systems

Automation tooling

On-call experience

CS concepts

Education

BS/MS in CS

Job description

Apple Inc. in Seattle is seeking a versatile software engineer for the Observability team within Apple Services Engineering to design and build the control plane tooling that operates our time series database in production at scale.

You will own provisioning, orchestration, scaling, health, and self-healing, while also contributing to ingestion, storage, and query paths, and mentoring peers to reduce toil and improve reliability for millions of Apple users.