11 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Direct the technical direction of backend systems supporting critical Apple internet services.
- Design, build, and maintain software and services that improve the feature set, availability, scalability, and security of internal cloud infrastructure.
- Design and implement distributed key-value store features including automatic repairs, shard splits, and rebalances.
- Build and operate strongly consistent, distributed, ordered key-value database systems using custom transaction logs and RocksDB.
- Make tradeoffs among availability, performance, and durability for mission-critical systems.
- Collaborate with internal customer teams and storage reliability engineering.
- Develop testable, maintainable code and scalable engineering processes.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of professional software development experience on software or infrastructure systems.
- At least 5 years of experience building and operating distributed systems.
- Experience coding in Rust, C++, Java, or C#.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
- Preferred: MS or PhD in Computer Science.
- Preferred: Track record of building, launching, and operating large-scale production internet services.
- Preferred: Knowledge of Java, non-blocking and thread-safe programming, distributed databases, distributed storage, or comparable mass-scale distributed systems.
- Preferred: Familiarity with RocksDB.
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.