Apple
ASE Observability
$175K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Experience
- 5 to 15 years of industry experience in building and maintaining backend distributed systems.
About the job
Build and operate Apple’s scalable observability platform, including distributed tracing, logging, and continuous profiling capabilities.
What you'll do
- Gather requirements across cross-functional teams and lead or participate in technical design discussions.
- Develop practical, fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed systems.
- Research the observability domain and develop ideas in the field.
What they ask for
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting highly scalable infrastructure services.
- 5 to 15 years of industry experience building and maintaining backend distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and concurrent programming.
- Strong analytical capabilities and attention to detail; passion for developing and testing robust code.
Nice to have
- Experience building observability platforms at scale; familiarity with OpenTelemetry and observability OSS tools.
- Proficiency in Java or Rust; familiarity with Kubernetes on Linux.
Pay
$175,000 and $263,300 (base salary)
Tools
OpenTelemetry, Java, Rust, Kubernetes, Linux
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