Apple

Senior Backend Engineer (Find My)

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10 hours ago
Malmö, SwedenSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own backend services from design through production.
  • Build and scale customer-facing web services for authentication, authorization, availability, spam control, reliability, and performance under load.
  • Debug production issues involving real-world load and concurrency.
  • Reason about distributed-system consistency, partitioning, and failure modes.
  • Build frameworks used by internal teams, other teams, and the developer community.
  • Manage dependencies across multiple teams while maintaining quality.
  • Make and communicate technical decisions through design documents and cross-functional discussions.

Requirements

  • Deep production experience building and operating systems at scale, including debugging issues that reproduce under real load or concurrency.
  • Deep Java knowledge, including the memory model, garbage collection behavior and tuning, allocation pressure, java.util.concurrent, and virtual threads versus classic reactive models.
  • Proven experience building and scaling customer-facing web services.
  • Strong distributed-systems knowledge covering consistency, partitioning, and failure modes.
  • Strong knowledge of data storage and caching technologies such as Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, and memcached or similar.
  • Experience writing REST-based services using Netty or similar frameworks.
  • Preferred knowledge of cryptography standards and protocols including PKCS, KMIP, X.509, AES, KDF, and CA.
  • Familiarity with ML systems, frameworks, and algorithms.
  • Familiarity with GitHub, Maven, Docker, Spinnaker, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience collaborating across teams and time zones in ambiguous, highly interdependent environments.
  • Knowledge and experience with CI/CD tooling and full automation testing.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions and write clear design documents.

Benefits

  • The role is on-site in Malmö, Sweden, with relocation required if not already based there.
  • English is the working language, both written and spoken.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraDockerJavaKubernetesMavenPostgreSQLRedisSpinnaker

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Apple

About Apple

10,000+ employees

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.

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