Senior Software Engineer - Solution Architecture & Platform, ASE

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Apple Services Engineering (ASE)’s Solutions Architecture & Platform team is
looking for technically expert Software Engineer to design, develop, enhance,
test, and support software and software engineering of its platforms. Our
platforms power secure and reliable processing of metadata and business
operations of Apple’s internal services at scale, including Apple’s Digital
Content to enable the availability of content to the store front, reporting, and
software development of internal applications and tooling. A key focus of this
role would be to develop software for a stream processing platform within a data
mesh architecture, while collaborating with the engineers on the team and
engineering teams across ASE. The scale and scope are complex and require
someone who has passion for solving difficult problems, conducts technical due
diligence, and looks at the big picture when solving them.

DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for designing and building
critical platforms, services and tools that enable engineers across Apple to
build secure and scalable services. This is a highly technical and collaborative
role where you will work with engineering teams across ASE to understand the
needs of stakeholders, align on goals, design and deliver high quality software
that meets Apple's standard and scale.

Requirements

• 10+ Years of experience in Software Engineering
• Strong coding experience in Java, Python
• Extensive experience in building distributed stateful micro services systems using RPC and Event Driven methodology.
• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design approach.
• Deep experience in API design, service oriented architecture (SOA), large scale distributed systems and asynchronous patterns with data guarantees.
• Experience in developing fault tolerant systems in multi-DC environments
• Strong knowledge of open-source stream and batch processing platforms, such as Spark, Flink, Kafka; and data formats - Avro, Protobuf
• Experience working with Data Lakehouse technologies (e.g. Apache Iceberg)
• Experience with large dataset storage solutions (HDFS, S3)
• Experience with RPC protocols (REST, gRPC)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are a must
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NOSQL data-stores

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Splunk, OpenTelemetry
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (particularly AWS, k8s) is a plus.
• Security (AuthZ/AuthN, mTLS, HTTPS)
• CDN knowledge

Responsibilities

• designing and building critical platforms, services and tools
• work with engineering teams across ASE to understand the needs of stakeholders
• align on goals
• design and deliver high quality software that meets Apple's standard and scale

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed