Senior Software Engineer - ASE Data Services
Apple
Software Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Feb 13, 2025
Summary
Posted:
Role Number:200590974
The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Data Services team is looking for an extraordinary engineer to design and build the best of breed systems for dealing with our complex and ever-growing data and infrastructure needs. We are a key part of the Apple ecosystem, supporting millions of users and billions of transactions. We're looking for someone ready to work at huge scale and have a hand in bringing amazing new products and services to market.
Description
The Apple Service Engineering team supports tens of millions of pieces of content in more than 150 markets enjoyed by hundreds of millions of users, which powers various features within the Apple client applications - iCloud, App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, iTunes, iBooks, Podcast, etc. We've got unique and growing needs for data storage and consumption. You will help build the large scale data services, which provide and support abilities like structured and unstructured storage, caching, queueing and much more. You'll collaborate cross-functionally with various Apple teams, from store and commerce through to search and recommendations, AIML, creating services and infrastructure platforms and pipelines that can rapidly scale and serve personalized and non-personalized data with very low latency. You should be someone who: * is willing and capable of diving deep into details * is not afraid to question assumptions * is a good team player who collaborates well * tackles problems with elegant technical solutions and always fight for excellence
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years in software development experience in Java and/or C++ with strong understanding of Object oriented concepts and design.
- Deep knowledge, experience of using/contributing to at least one of the scalable data stores, such as Solr, Cassandra, MongoDB, Memcached, Voldemort, FoundationDB, etc.
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful/RPC API and services.
- Strong production, debugging, and performance tuning experiences and skills.
- Strong understanding of data architecture and related problems.
- Experience working on complex problems and distributed systems where scalability and performance are extremely important (every millisecond counts)
- Should be independent and able to effectively work with cross functional teams
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Redis / Valkey highly preferred
- Experience contributing to Open Source projects is preferred.
- Experience with NIO frameworks such as Netty is a plus.
- Experience with compute/container platforms such as K8s is highly preferred.
- Experience in distributed data stores replication and CRDT is a plus.
- Experience in scalable message queue systems like Kafka, KubeMQ, RocketMQ is a plus.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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