Software Engineer, Observability

Apple • San Francisco, CA

6d

About The Position

The Apple Cloud Infrastructure team is building the next generation of tools
that empower Apple software developers to build products our customers love.
We're a fast moving, highly skilled team designing and building a suite of
observability services that help Apple engineers get insights into their
systems. If the thought of working with petabytes of data interests you, this is
the place to be. Our system must scale globally, stay highly available, and
"just work”, while supporting some of the biggest services in the world. That's
a tall order, and we're looking to add more talented and passionate engineers
who love challenges. If you'd love to join this amazing team, we'd love to hear
from you.

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for enthusiastic developers to join as a member of this
collaborative and friendly team. This person will have an individual
responsibility and influence over the direction and backend of many critical
Apple internet services. You should be someone with ideas and passion for
software delivered as a service to maximize reuse, efficiency, and simplicity.
Your work will impact millions of Apple users and is necessary to the success of
some of the most visible current and future features. You will have the courage
and experience to be frank and ambitious but humble enough to listen to others.
We want your thoughts on how we can move faster, be more creative, and deliver
tools and ideas to empower developers around the world. We expect you to
challenge the status quo, to care about the details, the end user, and how it
all comes together.

Requirements

• Experience and insight into designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable infrastructure services.
• 4+ years of industry experience.
• Deep understanding and work experience in distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of core CS concepts including data structures, algorithms, and concurrent programming.
• Deep understanding and work experience with distributed data collection and data streaming.
• Proficient with running services on bare-metal Linux systems.
• Proficient in one of Golang, Java, Rust is desirable.
• Experience with SNMP is desirable.
• Experience integrating and using observability or telemetry systems to monitor distributed services.
• Experience with one of Prometheus, Telegraf, OpenTelemetry is desirable.
• Great communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with time series database internals.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities.
• Passion for developing and testing clear, robust code.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies and frameworks.
• Great communication skills.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees