Apple

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Services Special Projects

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11 hours ago
Cupertino, CA, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, scale, and operate high-throughput, low-latency backend services and customer-facing web services.
  • Develop distributed systems supporting real-time transactions, analytics, content delivery, and other mission-critical workloads.
  • Evolve a multi-tenant platform and ship new capabilities, including AI/ML-powered services.
  • Apply distributed-systems best practices across system design, implementation, deployment, and production operations.
  • Perform JVM performance tuning and profiling for low-latency services.
  • Build automated testing, build, and deployment pipelines for production services.
  • Identify, triage, and remediate security vulnerabilities through dependency management, secure code review, and threat modeling.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience building scalable, distributed systems in production.
  • Experience building, authoring, and operating large-scale, multi-tiered distributed systems and customer-facing web services.
  • Strong understanding of API design, authentication, authorization, high availability, concurrency, reliability, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Strong proficiency in Java and application frameworks such as Spring Boot; experience with Go or C++ is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience with JVM performance tuning, garbage-collection tuning, JFR, async-profiler, and heap/thread-dump analysis.
  • Experience with asynchronous and reactive JVM stacks, testing tools, Gradle, transactional consistency models, relational and NoSQL databases, network I/O, and gRPC.
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
  • Experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, stream processing, Iceberg, Cassandra, Redis, Jackson, Protobuf, Avro, and Schema Registry.
  • Experience identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities in production services.
  • Preferred experience with machine learning systems, ML frameworks and algorithms, GPU-powered AI services, LLM or ML model serving, TLS, X.509 certificates, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, and secure token or session lifecycle management.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSC++DockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGradlegRPCJavaJenkinsKubernetesRedisSpring Boot

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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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