Apple

Staff Software Engineer, Information Systems & Technology

$185K–$325K

Cupertino, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 7, 2026

Experience: 8+ years developing software professionally; 5+ years with distributed systems and relational/NoSQL databases; 4+ years with Java. Longer experience strongly preferred.
Education: B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience.

About the job

Architects, develops, tests, and maintains Java-based software and distributed systems supporting Apple’s customer and employee services, while contributing across project planning and delivery.

What you'll do

Design, develop, test, document, improve, and maintain software, primarily in Java.
Contribute across projects from planning and design through implementation and future iterations.
Help design solutions and lead software projects in collaboration with engineers, product partners, and senior leaders.

What they ask for

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience.
5+ years designing, implementing, and shipping high-scale, high-performance, highly available, fault-tolerant, secure cloud-based distributed systems, including API design and implementation.
5+ years with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design, query optimization, and sophisticated data interactions.
4+ years with Java; mastery of OOP, data structures, algorithms, software design patterns, and maintainable backend code.

Nice to have

Leading software projects across distributed teams as a tech lead and mentoring senior-level engineers.
Experience with cloud Kubernetes and CI/CD, Java web and testing frameworks, tooling languages, distributed computing systems, JVM internals, or networking.

Pay

$184,700 to $324,800 USD base salary

Tools

Java, REST, RPC, GraphQL, Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB

AI focus

The role may involve Apple-wide data processing and AI/ML systems; specific AI/ML duties are not defined.

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