Senior Software Engineer - Frameworks for Engineering Experience

Apple • Seattle, WA

8d

About The Position

Imagine what you could do here. The people here at Apple don’t just build
products — we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries.
It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation
that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading
environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we
found it. The Apple Services Engineering Server (ASE) Frameworks Team is one of
the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and
technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music,
Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting
Apple’s high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of
entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers
build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to
process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that
media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks
to Apple’s outstanding integration of hardware, software, and services,
engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always
includes a deep dedication to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of
Apple’s core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business
than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and multi-functional,
offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here

The ASE Server Frameworks team is responsible for providing both frameworks and
reference examples for Java applications and services that various ASE
engineering teams build on top of. The team delivers reliable, well-tested, and
well-documented frameworks that enable teams to build scalable, production-ready
services.Like widely used open-source frameworks, these APIs and frameworks must
carefully consider backward compatibility, upgrade paths, transitive
dependencies, and dependency management. As the platform evolves and modernizes,
the team continuously revises existing frameworks and introduces new ones as
appropriate.In this role, you will work with a team of experienced Java
engineers and architects to execute against a feature backlog and long-term
roadmap. The frameworks developed by this team incorporate ASE standard
methodologies and provide foundational support for critical service capabilities
such as logging, metrics and statistics collection, distributed tracing, and
other core infrastructure concerns.

Requirements

• Strong object-oriented programming experience (primarily Java).
• Expert knowledge of build and dependency management tools such as Maven and Gradle (Bazel a bonus).
• Excellent understanding of the software development lifecycle, including version control, code reviews, testing practices, and code quality tools.
• Passionate about creating developer tools and services that improve the quality of life for other engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience scaling, deploying, and operating distributed services using modern cloud technologies, including containers and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying services to production environments.
• Experience troubleshooting deployment and runtime issues in distributed systems.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and cross-team partners to design and deliver shared platforms and services.
• Experience with SQL, relational databases, and ORM tooling (Cassandra a bonus).
• Motivated by operational excellence, maintenance of distributed services, and data-driven decision making.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and excellent communication skills.
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

Nice To Haves

• Interest in exploring Machine Learning and LLMs for automated code refactoring and developer productivity.
• Experience with Bazel and Cassandra.
• M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level