CloudKit Client Software Engineer

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Aug 30, 2024
Role Number:200565945
Imagine what we could do together. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what we could accomplish. Apple is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next generation of cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on key components of the Apple cloud platform and introducing new fundamental capabilities. Your work will help to power entirely new applications and scale existing ones, such as Photos, Messages, FaceTime, Notes, Home, and many more. This is your chance to put a dent in the Universe. You will work with elite teams who have a real passion for engineering and delivering features that maintain strong privacy guarantees for end users.

DESCRIPTION

We work on the device side of iCloud, building frameworks such as CloudKit and NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore that provide the foundations for secure and private cloud storage and computation. This position will involve close collaboration with engineers across Apple, covering dependencies below our frameworks and adopters above them. This job entails systems programming tasks such as synchronization protocol design, IPC, multi-process performance considerations, and API design. Reliability is essential, and we’re looking for engineers who are passionate about building complex systems that will seamlessly recover in the event of errors. In this role, you will: • Work with adopters to craft flexible and ergonomic APIs • Work with OS partners to build performant architectures • Work with our server counterparts to design scalable features and protocols • Work with teammates to help maintain and evolve test automation

• 3+ years of Software Engineering experience with strong programming skills in Objective-C and/or Swift
• Experience building and maintaining software on one of Apple’s operating systems (iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, etc.)
• Experienced with Agile Software Development Methodologies
• Interested in building system-level frameworks and APIs
• Interested in Swift concurrency

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building system-level frameworks and APIs
• Ability to build relationships with diverse groups of people
• Self-motivated
• Excellent communication skills

• 3+ years of Software Engineering experience with strong programming skills in Objective-C and/or Swift
• Experience building and maintaining software on one of Apple’s operating systems (iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, etc.)
• Experienced with Agile Software Development Methodologies
• Interested in building system-level frameworks and APIs
• Interested in Swift concurrenc