Apple
Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, iCloud Platform
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional experience; a Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience is also accepted.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.
About the job
Develop and operate privacy-focused cloud infrastructure and iCloud services, improving their capabilities, scalability, availability, and performance.
What you'll do
- Partner across Apple to develop features enabling new experiences in the Apple ecosystem.
- Improve service scalability, availability, and performance, and evolve system design and architecture.
- Partner with SRE to investigate and remediate production issues.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems.
- Industry experience with programming languages such as Java, Swift, C/C++, or Go.
- Experience in performance benchmarking, debugging, and tuning distributed systems.
- Experience in cloud deployment and observability technologies, such as Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Strong communication skills and ability to build relationships with diverse groups.
- Understanding of cryptographic protocols, data encryption, secure key management, and security architecture.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (USD, base salary)
Tools
Java, Swift, C/C++, Go, Kubernetes, CloudKit, FaceTime, PushNotifications
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