What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering position at Apple, Inc.?
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next-generation of Apple's cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on CloudKit, Apple's foundational privacy-focused database platform, which securely stores users' data and seamlessly keeps it synchronized across all their Apple devices.
Description
CloudKit manages data at a massive scale! It is a strongly-consistent database of structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. Considered the bedrock of iCloud, it is purpose built to be performant, highly available, and extremely scalable. CloudKit is a framework designed to the highest standards of user privacy that not only empowers developers to build highly collaborative and secure applications but is also the storage foundation for Apple's signature cloud experiences, such as Photos, Drive, Notes, Keynote, News, and many third-party applications!
We are a world-class team who has a real passion for engineering and delivering high quality services to Apple's customers. As a key member of a versatile organization, you will introduce new fundamental capabilities that will help power entirely new applications and scale existing ones.
We are looking for engineers who have exceptional expertise in building fault-tolerant distributed systems. Our engineers demonstrate unique leadership skills and can excel in a complex environment that obsesses about the customer experience.
Minimum Qualifications
7 years of industry experience developing software in Java, C, or C
Experience working with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologies
Expertise in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworks
Expertise in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments
Industry experience building and operating large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems
Bachelor's degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience
Preferred Qualifications
Strong background with KV data stores, e.g., FoundationDB, DynamoDB, or Cassandra
Strong fundamentals in storage systems, e.g., schema design, indexes, and transactions
Familiar with high-performance caching mechanisms, e.g., Redis or Memcached
Familiar with event streaming and queueing systems, e.g., Kafka
Experience using AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and cloud-native technologies (Containers, Kubernetes, gRPC)
Experience with TLS, X.509 certificates, or similar security and cryptographic protocols
Description
CloudKit manages data at a massive scale! It is a strongly-consistent database of structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. Considered the bedrock of iCloud, it is purpose built to be performant, highly available, and extremely scalable. CloudKit is a framework designed to the highest standards of user privacy that not only empowers developers to build highly collaborative and secure applications but is also the storage foundation for Apple's signature cloud experiences, such as Photos, Drive, Notes, Keynote, News, and many third-party applications!
We are a world-class team who has a real passion for engineering and delivering high quality services to Apple's customers. As a key member of a versatile organization, you will introduce new fundamental capabilities that will help power entirely new applications and scale existing ones.
We are looking for engineers who have exceptional expertise in building fault-tolerant distributed systems. Our engineers demonstrate unique leadership skills and can excel in a complex environment that obsesses about the customer experience.
Minimum Qualifications
7 years of industry experience developing software in Java, C, or C
Experience working with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologies
Expertise in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworks
Expertise in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments
Industry experience building and operating large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems
Bachelor's degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience
Preferred Qualifications
Strong background with KV data stores, e.g., FoundationDB, DynamoDB, or Cassandra
Strong fundamentals in storage systems, e.g., schema design, indexes, and transactions
Familiar with high-performance caching mechanisms, e.g., Redis or Memcached
Familiar with event streaming and queueing systems, e.g., Kafka
Experience using AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and cloud-native technologies (Containers, Kubernetes, gRPC)
Experience with TLS, X.509 certificates, or similar security and cryptographic protocols