Software Engineer, Architecture Team (ASE)

Apple • Seattle, WA

11h • Onsite

About The Position

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. Join Apple Services Engineering's Architecture Team in Seattle and help power the App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, and other services used by millions daily. We're looking for a Software Engineer to help design and optimize the distributed systems and cloud infrastructure behind these mission-critical platforms. You'll work alongside experienced architects to improve performance, scalability, and reliability at massive scale. This is a hands-on role — you'll develop services, dig into real architecture challenges, from fine-tuning system performance to building novel distributed solutions. If you're passionate about solving problems at scale and want your work to reach customers worldwide, we'd love to talk. Come build with us! As an Architecture team member in Apple Services Engineering you will help build the services, libraries, tooling, and workflows that power large-scale, mission-critical services in Java and Swift. You'll analyze application architectures, workload patterns, and infrastructure to identify inefficiencies and drive meaningful optimizations across our platforms — including the App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Podcasts. This work spans collaboration across multiple teams at Apple, helping define, implement, and deliver a shared technical vision. You'll also build tools that empower stakeholders and development teams to analyze and act on architectural improvements at scale. We're looking for an engineer with strong technical and communication skills, practical knowledge of distributed systems and cloud technologies, and the ability to build relationships across the company. A genuine passion for quality, technical excellence, and understanding complex systems is essential. You'll join a team of skilled, enthusiastic engineers working in a fast-moving, high-impact space. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience in hands-on server-side development
• Proficiency in Java with a solid understanding of the JVM, plus flexibility to work across other major languages
• Experience with distributed systems, including building and maintaining highly available, scalable services
• Hands-on experience with cloud native technologies and public/private cloud platforms, including deployment, monitoring, and container orchestration with Kubernetes
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs and libraries, with familiarity in dependency management, build processes, and CI/CD
• Ability to analyze and tune applications for performance, efficiency, and cost optimization, including experience with monitoring and log analytics tools
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent fields), with strong fundamentals in algorithms and data structures, and excellent written/verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated competence with GenAI and various LLMs for use in software development and analytic use cases
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python/Swift Server/Go for automation or integration with APIs
• Strong project management skills, including excellent presentation development
• Influential - ability to influence teams and leaders across the company to achieve your vision
• Quality focus - produce reliable, maintainable, deliverable software
• Comfortable diving deep - working across multiple levels of abstraction
• Passion for evangelizing technologies

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Kubernetes, reactive programming, async programming, and non-blocking IO is a huge plus
• Expert in writing detailed solution specifications, diagrams, best practices/standards documentation, operating procedures, test plans/test reports, etc.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop services and dig into real architecture challenges.
• Fine-tune system performance.
• Build novel distributed solutions.
• Build services, libraries, tooling, and workflows that power large-scale, mission-critical services in Java and Swift.
• Analyze application architectures, workload patterns, and infrastructure to identify inefficiencies and drive meaningful optimizations across platforms.
• Collaborate across multiple teams at Apple to define, implement, and deliver a shared technical vision.
• Build tools that empower stakeholders and development teams to analyze and act on architectural improvements at scale.

What This Job Offers

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