2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own system design and technical architecture for distributed AppleCare sales, service, and support platforms.
- Translate business requirements and ambiguous problems into concrete technical solutions and engineering specifications.
- Define and document API contracts, data flows, interface definitions, and inter-system interactions.
- Architect systems for high availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability, privacy, and performance.
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders and engineering teams from systems impact analysis through production delivery.
- Develop domain expertise and use performance monitoring and observability data to identify optimization opportunities.
- Coordinate multiple global efforts and work with vendors, contractors, and distributed teams.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of software engineering experience focused on system design, technical architecture, or solution architecture for large-scale customer-facing production systems.
- Experience designing and documenting engineering specifications for APIs, data flows, and system interfaces.
- Experience architecting distributed systems for high availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability, and variable traffic loads.
- Ability to translate business requirements into system designs and technical solutions in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with modern backend stacks and data stores, including Java, Python, J2EE, Oracle, NoSQL, or MongoDB.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or another technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 12+ years of relevant software engineering experience and 4+ years in hands-on development or technical architecture.
- Preferred: experience with complex business domains, observability and performance optimization, vendors and contractors, global cross-functional teams, and managing multiple efforts.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, written and verbal communication, organizational, leadership, and influencing skills.
About Apple
Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.