Software Engineer, Observability

Apple Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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 talented and passionate engineers who love challenges. If you'd love to join this amazing team, we'd love to hear from you.

We are looking for enthusiastic developers to join as a member of this collaborative and friendly team. This person will have an individual responsibility and influence over the direction and backend of many critical Apple internet services. You should be someone with ideas and 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. 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience and insight into designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable infrastructure services.
• 4+ years of industry experience.
• Deep understanding and work experience in distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of core CS concepts including data structures, algorithms, and concurrent programming.
• Deep understanding and work experience with distributed data collection and data streaming.
• Proficient with running services on bare-metal Linux systems.
• Proficient in one of Golang, Java, Rust is desirable.
• Experience with SNMP is desirable.
• Experience integrating and using observability or telemetry systems to monitor distributed services.
• Experience with one of Prometheus, Telegraf, OpenTelemetry is desirable.
• Great communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with time series database internals.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities.
• Passion for developing and testing clear, robust code.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies and frameworks.
• Great communication skills.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.