Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple • San Francisco, CA

74d

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next-generation of Apple's cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on CloudKit, Apple's foundational privacy-focused database platform, which securely stores users' data and seamlessly keeps it synchronized across all their Apple devices. CloudKit manages data at a massive scale! It is a strongly-consistent database of structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. Considered the bedrock of iCloud, it is purpose built to be performant, highly available, and extremely scalable. CloudKit is a framework designed to the highest standards of user privacy that not only empowers developers to build highly collaborative and secure applications but is also the storage foundation for Apple's signature cloud experiences, such as Photos, Drive, Notes, Keynote, News, and many third-party applications! We are a world-class team who has a real passion for engineering and delivering high quality services to Apple's customers. As a key member of a versatile organization, you will introduce new fundamental capabilities that will help power entirely new applications and scale existing ones.

Requirements

• Exceptional expertise in building fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Strong background with KV data stores, e.g., FoundationDB, DynamoDB, or Cassandra.
• Strong fundamentals in storage systems, e.g., schema design, indexes, and transactions.
• Familiarity with high-performance caching mechanisms, e.g., Redis or Memcached.
• Familiarity with event streaming and queueing systems, e.g., Kafka.
• Experience using AWS, GCP, and cloud-native technologies (Containers, Kubernetes, gRPC).
• Experience with TLS, X.509 certificates, or similar security and cryptographic protocols.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance Apple's cloud services infrastructure.
• Work on CloudKit, focusing on privacy and data synchronization.
• Build fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Introduce new capabilities to power new applications and scale existing ones.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees