Apple
Backend Engineer, QoS Apple Services Engineering
$142K–$214K
San Diego, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Education
- A related technical degree, a non-traditional educational path, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and operate backend services, real-time data pipelines, and tools that monitor and improve the reliability of Apple’s services.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and scale backend services and real-time data pipelines processing large volumes of cloud infrastructure data.
- Build tools and interfaces that help Apple engineers monitor service health and diagnose disruptions.
- Collaborate with service teams to provide observability for new and expanding business areas.
What they ask for
- Experience building and scaling high-performance backend services and APIs.
- Experience designing and building large-scale batch or stream data pipelines.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, and with modern observability practices and tooling.
- A track record of delivering exceptional software through a related technical degree, a non-traditional educational path, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with modern frontend development or native macOS/iOS application development using Swift.
- Curiosity about applying emerging technologies, such as generative AI, to engineering challenges.
Pay
$142,300 and $214,300 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Scala, Kotlin, Go, Python, Swift, Apache Spark, Apache Flink
AI focus
Curiosity about applying emerging technologies, such as generative AI, to solve engineering challenges.
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