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Description
As an Architecture team member in Apple Services Engineering you will help build the services, libraries, tooling, and workflows that power large-scale, mission-critical services in Java and Swift. You'll analyze application architectures, workload patterns, and infrastructure to identify inefficiencies and drive meaningful optimizations across our platforms — including the App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Podcasts. This work spans collaboration across multiple teams at Apple, helping define, implement, and deliver a shared technical vision. You'll also build tools that empower stakeholders and development teams to analyze and act on architectural improvements at scale. We're looking for an engineer with strong technical and communication skills, practical knowledge of distributed systems and cloud technologies, and the ability to build relationships across the company. A genuine passion for quality, technical excellence, and understanding complex systems is essential. You'll join a team of skilled, enthusiastic engineers working in a fast-moving, high-impact space. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of industry experience in hands-on server-side development Proficiency in Java with a solid understanding of the JVM, plus flexibility to work across other major languages Experience with distributed systems, including building and maintaining highly available, scalable services Hands-on experience with cloud native technologies and public/private cloud platforms, including deployment, monitoring, and container orchestration with Kubernetes Experience designing and maintaining APIs and libraries, with familiarity in dependency management, build processes, and CI/CD Ability to analyze and tune applications for performance, efficiency, and cost optimization, including experience with monitoring and log analytics tools Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent fields), with strong fundamentals in algorithms and data structures, and excellent written/verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Kubernetes, reactive programming, async programming, and non-blocking IO is a huge plus Expert in writing detailed solution specifications, diagrams, best practices/standards documentation, operating procedures, test plans/test reports, etc. Demonstrated competence with GenAI and various LLMs for use in software development and analytic use cases Proficient in programming languages such as Python/Swift Server/Go for automation or integration with APIs Strong project management skills, including excellent presentation development Influential - ability to influence teams and leaders across the company to achieve your vision Quality focus - produce reliable, maintainable, deliverable software Comfortable diving deep - working across multiple levels of abstraction Passion for evangelizing technologies
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