Apple
Staff Software Engineer, ASE Storage team
$216K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Experience
- 10 years of professional software development experience on software or infrastructure systems; 5 years building and operating distributed systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
About the job
Lead the design and development of Apple’s distributed object and key-value storage systems, improving their scalability, availability, security, and durability.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain software and services for Apple’s internal cloud infrastructure.
- Design and implement distributed key-value store features, including automatic repairs, shard splits, and rebalances.
- Collaborate with customer and storage reliability engineering teams, building testable, maintainable code and scalable processes.
What they ask for
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
- Experience coding in one or more of Rust, C++, Java, or C#.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
Nice to have
- Proven track record building, launching, and operating large-scale production internet services.
- Knowledge of distributed databases or storage, familiarity with RocksDB, or knowledge of Java non-blocking and thread-safe programming.
Pay
$216,200 and $324,800 (USD; base salary)
Tools
Rust, C++, Java, C#, Raft/ZAB, RocksDB
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