Senior Software Engineer, Energy Services

Apple • San Diego, CA

10h

About The Position

We are looking for an enthusiastic software engineer to help us combat climate change and meet our company goals. Join us to help investigate emerging technologies and develop next-generation products. The ideal candidate thrives on ambiguity and is passionate about creating new products with meaningful and disruptive impact to the world.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or 3+ years of equivalent industry experience
• Extensive experience architecting, building, and maintaining mission-critical distributed systems at large scales
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and trade-offs in consistency, latency, and throughput
• A commitment to engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and the curiosity to evaluate and advocate for new technologies and patterns
• An ability to communicate thoughtfully and clearly, both verbally and in writing, to drive consensus on complex technical concepts with diverse audiences, including global teams and external partners
• A track record of building and sustaining healthy long-term relationships and technical influence within your team and beyond its boundaries
• The tenacity and perseverance to lead complex projects all the way from conception to production
• Experience using generative AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle to produce high-quality software
• Able to work with cross-functional partners to define product objectives
• Passion for people, code, and improving our future

Nice To Haves

• Deep hands-on software development expertise with Java or Kotlin and Spring
• Proven development and operational experience with high-volume REST and/or gRPC services (either server-to-server or mobile client facing)
• Strong experience designing for containerization and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Significant time spent architecting, building, and operating cloud-native (e.g. AWS) applications with resilience, failover, and self-healing as core features
• Expertise in designing robust CI/CD pipelines and defining infrastructure as code
• Extensive experience with observability strategies and tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog)
• Deep understanding of modern networking and experience using traffic tools for tracing and debugging
• A fundamental appreciation for, and understanding of security, privacy, and cryptography (e.g. PKI, certificate management, JWT)
• Hands-on experience optimizing SQL/NoSQL databases for scale (e.g. Aurora, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Oracle)
• Domain knowledge of the utility industry, electrical grid or renewable energy

Responsibilities

• Investigate emerging technologies
• Develop next-generation products
• Create new products with meaningful and disruptive impact
• Communicate thoughtfully and clearly, both verbally and in writing, to drive consensus on complex technical concepts with diverse audiences, including global teams and external partners
• Build and sustain healthy long-term relationships and technical influence within your team and beyond its boundaries
• Lead complex projects all the way from conception to production
• Use generative AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle to produce high-quality software
• Work with cross-functional partners to define product objectives

What This Job Offers

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