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Senior Software Engineer iCloud Platform Observability

Apple


Job Location:

London, KY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 19 August 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 17 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next-generation of Apples cloud services platform and infrastructure. You will be working on foundational systems that power iCloud services including distributed data platforms storage systems and a unified observability infrastructure that standardizes monitoring and telemetry approaches across all iCloud services serving billions of customers. niCloud manages data and services at massive scale! Our unified observability platform serves as the central nervous system for monitoring and understanding the health of all iCloud services providing comprehensive telemetry collection real-time processing and sophisticated analysis capabilities that span billions of active Apple customers. This observability ecosystem is purpose-built to deliver highly scalable and performant solutions that maintain the highest standards of user privacy and security. nWe 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 help designing and implementing the overall observability architecture of iCloud Platform and its services handling data streams at massive scale while putting the highest priority on user experience and data privacy.n

Were looking for engineers with a strong track record of building fault-tolerant distributed systems and the judgment to operate confidently in a complex high-scale environment. Our engineers demonstrate unique leadership skills and can excel in a complex environment that obsesses about the customer experience. nAs a software engineer on the core observability platform components of iCloud services you will design develop and support a multi-tenant platform that standardizes observability across iCloud services. We value engineers who can move fluidly between hands-on coding architecture decisions and production ownership and who are curious about applying new techniques including machine learning to solve operational problems.n

Design develop and support distributed services that ingest and process massive volumes of operational datanIntegrate with large-scale data processing and streaming engines as part of a broader service architecturenCollaborate with teams across iCloud to understand their systems and deliver the insights and observability they need to operate with confidencenDrive 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

Strong background in developing software in Java or a similar language (e.g. Swift C or C)nStrong background in designing building and operating backend services and distributed systemsnStrong background in streaming data processing frameworks handling data at massive scalenExperience in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environmentsnBachelors degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent job-related experience

Strong background in time-series and NoSQL databasesnStrong background in observability concepts: metrics traces logs and their correlationnStrong background in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworksnExperience with AWS GCP and cloud native technologies (Containers Kubernetes gRPC)nExperience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry Prometheus Jaeger or similar

Required Experience:

Senior IC


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