Apple
Senior Software Engineer - iCloud Messaging Identity Services
$142K–$263K
San Diego, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- At least 3 years of backend software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate scalable identity and discovery backend services for Messages, FaceTime, and other Apple messaging and sync features.
What you'll do
- Lead projects and represent the team in cross-functional settings.
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to build messaging products and scalable, highly available web services.
- Drive features end-to-end through exploration, design, implementation, testing, and operations.
What they ask for
- Experience in Java, Go, C#, or similar languages.
- Experience building large-scale, highly available cloud services.
- Experience with distributed database systems, such as Cassandra.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a sense of product ownership.
Nice to have
- Understanding of multi-threading, non-blocking I/O, and networking concepts; or applied cryptography.
- Familiarity with identity, authentication, and authorization systems at scale.
Pay
$142,300 to $263,300 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Go, C#, Cassandra
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