Apple
Software Engineer - Observability
$175K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- BS or MS in CS or equivalent.
About the job
Build and operate control-plane tooling for Apple’s production time series database while contributing to its distributed data services.
What you'll do
- Design and build tooling and automation for provisioning, orchestration, scaling, upgrades, health, and self-healing across global clusters.
- Contribute to TSDB ingestion, storage, and query services; improve fleet reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and operational toil.
- Gather requirements, lead technical design discussions, and support rollout and on-call operability.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in CS or equivalent.
- 5+ years of industry experience.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or Python.
- Experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable production infrastructure services, with deep distributed-systems experience and hands-on automation/tooling experience.
Nice to have
- Experience building control-plane or fleet-management tooling for stateful/data systems; DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, configuration management, or GitOps experience.
- Kubernetes and observability experience; familiarity with TSDB internals, columnar storage, query engines, or Rust.
Pay
$175,000 and $263,300 (base salary)
Tools
Java, Scala, Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus
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