Apple Looking for Software Engineer – Observability at Culver City, CA Full Time

Summary

The Apple Cloud Infrastructure team is building the next generation of tools that empower Apple software developers to build products our customers love. We’re a fast-moving, highly skilled team designing and building a suite of observability services that help Apple engineers get insights into their systems.

If the thought of working with petabytes of data interests you, this is the place to be. Our system must scale globally, stay highly available, and “just work”, while supporting some of the biggest services in the world. That’s a tall order, and we’re looking to add more hardworking and passionate engineers who love challenges. If you’d love to join this amazing team, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Qualifications

10 years of industry experience.

Experience and insight into designing, implementing, and supporting highly scalable, distributed infrastructure services.

Deep understanding of core CS concepts, including data structures, algorithms, and concurrent programming.

Proficient in Perl.

Proficient with running services on bare-metal Linux systems.

Experience integrating and using observability or telemetry systems to monitor distributed services.

Description

• Requirement gathering across multi-functional teams.

• Developing practical, fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed systems.

• Leading and participating in technical design discussions across multi-functional teams.

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the domain and come up with creative ideas in the domain.

• Willingness to lead independent research in the field of work.

• Mentor other engineers in the team.

You will have the courage and experience to be frank and ambitious but humble enough to listen to others. We want your thoughts on how we can move faster, be more creative, and deliver tools and ideas to empower developers around the world. We expect you to challenge the status quo, to care about the details, the end user, and how it all comes together.

We are looking for enthusiastic developers to join as a member of this collaborative and friendly team. This person will have individual responsibility and influence over the direction and backend of many critical Apple internet services. You should be someone with ideas and a passion for software delivered as a service to maximize reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. Your work will impact millions of Apple users and is necessary to the success of some of the most visible current and future features.

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.

Additional Requirements

Experience in the below is a plus:

• Proficient in one: Golang, Java, Rust, JavaScript, and Python is desirable.

• Experience with distributed data collection and data streaming is desirable.

• Experience with SNMP is desirable.

• Experience with one of: Prometheus, Telegraf, and OpenTelemetry is desirable.

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $144,500 and $250,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Role Number: 200476806