Principal Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next-generation of Apples cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on CloudKit Apples foundational privacy-focused database platform which securely stores users data and seamlessly keeps it synchronized across all their Apple devices.

CloudKit manages data at a massive scale! It is a strongly-consistent database of structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. Considered the bedrock of iCloud it is purpose built to be performant highly available and extremely scalable. CloudKit is a framework designed to the highest standards of user privacy that not only empowers developers to build highly collaborative and secure applications but is also the storage foundation for Apples signature cloud experiences such as Photos Drive Notes Keynote News and many third-party applications! nnWe are a world-class team who has a real passion for engineering and delivering high quality services to Apples customers. As a key member of a versatile organization you will introduce new fundamental capabilities that will help power entirely new applications and scale existing are looking for engineers who have exceptional expertise in building fault-tolerant distributed systems. Our engineers demonstrate unique leadership skills and can excel in a complex environment that obsesses about the customer experience.

Design develop and support a multi-tenant platform with many underlying technologiesnPartner with teams across Apple to develop and ship new customer-facing featuresnDrive end-to-end project execution from design reviews and through production releasesnDeploy scale and maintain highly concurrent and throughput-intensive servicesnTriage investigate and remediate production and operational issues

15 years of industry experience developing software in Java C or CnExperience working with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologiesnExpertise in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworksnExpertise in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environmentsnIndustry experience building and operating large-scale multi-tiered distributed systemsnBachelors Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience

Strong background with KV data stores e.g. FoundationDB DynamoDB or CassandranStrong fundamentals in storage systems e.g. schema design indexes and transactionsnFamiliar with high-performance caching mechanisms e.g. Redis or Memcached nFamiliar with event streaming and queueing systems e.g. Kafka nExperience using AWS GCP and cloud-native technologies (Containers Kubernetes gRPC)nExperience with TLS X.509 certificates or similar security and cryptographic protocols