2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design and develop the control plane of Apple’s security platform.
- Build and tune high-performance backend services and robust, scalable distributed systems.
- Collaborate with the data-plane team and other cross-functional teams to deliver platform features.
- Design and implement versioned, backward-compatible APIs and reliable asynchronous service communication.
- Develop and optimize relational and NoSQL database schemas, queries, indexes, and execution plans.
- Lead software projects as a technical lead when needed and mentor software engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience.
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of Java experience, including concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, software design patterns, and maintainable backend code.
- Strong understanding of JVM internals, including garbage collection, memory allocation, JIT, and JNI.
- Experience designing and implementing APIs using gRPC, GraphQL, OpenAPI or Swagger, and Protobuf, including versioning, gateway patterns, and rate limiting.
- Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB.
- Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure as code, containerization, and orchestration using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred experience leading software projects, mentoring engineers, using Claude, Copilot, or Codex, and designing high-scale, highly available, fault-tolerant cloud systems.
- Preferred knowledge of networking, messaging and event-driven architectures, caching, event sourcing, CQRS, and distributed communication.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLgRPCJavaKubernetesMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLRabbitMQRedisTerraform
Categories
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.