Senior Software Engineer - Apple Distributed Storage (Object Store)

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Oct 16, 2024
Role Number:200573850
The Apple Object Store is a massive scale storage system that provides the foundation of data storage across Apple. Durability, availability, and performance are crucial. We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer with experience in developing large-scale services and infrastructure to take a central role in designing and building our next version. Join our friendly, collaborative, highly-motivated team!

DESCRIPTION

We are building and supporting critical infrastructural systems and frameworks which provide and support services like structured and unstructured storage for Apple Cloud Infrastructure, which is the platform upon which many iCloud and other backend systems at Apple are built; they have huge scale and store exabytes of data. We are looking for a curious, enthusiastic developer to join as a member of our team. This person will have the opportunity to directly impact the direction for the backend of many critical Apple internet services take for years to come. You will also need to build working, collaborative relationships within our team and across teams at Apple. This engineer’s work will affect hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features. RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE: Designing, building and maintaining the software and services to improve the feature set, availability, scalability and security of Apple’s internal cloud infrastructure. Collaborating with internal teams, including customer teams and the storage SRE team. Finally, we are looking for engineers that are focused on building testable, maintainable code.

• BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• At least 10 years of experience building and operating software systems
• At least 5 years of experience building and operating distributed systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS or PhD in Computer Science
• Proven track record for building, launching and operating large-scale production internet services
• Knowledge of Java and non-blocking and thread safe programming
• Knowledge of distributed databases, distributed storage, or similar mass-scale Distributed Systems

• BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• At least 10 years of experience building and operating software systems
• At least 5 years of experience building and operating distributed system