Software Engineering Technical Lead, Server Energy Services

Role Number: 200673124-3543

Summary

At Apple, great ideas quickly become phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences. Join us in building the future of energy! One way we are making the world better is our Apple 2030 initiative — a commitment to become carbon neutral across our entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030, including the electricity used to power Apple devices. We build robust, highly scalable services that support this mission, working across distributed systems, security, and privacy with a focus on reliability and disruptive, meaningful impact.

Description

You will help architect and evolve the Energy Services platform, shaping how it scales and stays resilient as we add new features and partner integrations. Working closely with server and client teams, you will design and build services and APIs that support millions of users, while continuing to raise the bar on scalability and resilience. You'll also have the opportunity to be involved with early development investigations, prototypes, and 3rd-party integrations for one of Apple's most innovative spaces.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, including 3+ years as a tech lead/architect.

• Extensive experience architecting, building, shipping, and scaling mission-critical distributed systems on the JVM.

• Track record of driving architecture and technical roadmaps across multiple engineers, services, or teams.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and the trade-offs in consistency, latency, throughput, and failure modes.

• A commitment to engineering excellence, with curiosity to evaluate and advocate for new technologies and patterns.

• Demonstrated ability to influence architectural and cross-functional decisions, build strong working relationships across teams, and drive complex projects from conception to production.

• Clear and effective communicator across technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership and external partners.

• BS Degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong DevOps and platform engineering experience — containerization and orchestration, cloud-native services, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

• Experience with durable workflow orchestration platforms (e.g., Temporal).

• Significant hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases at scale (e.g., Aurora, DynamoDB).

• Solid understanding of security, privacy, and applied cryptography — PKI, certificate management, and JWT.

• Experience with Java/Kotlin, Spring, and gRPC.

• Proven experience onboarding and integrating with external partners.

• Hands-on experience using generative AI tools to accelerate software development.

• Domain knowledge of the utility industry, electrical grid, or renewable energy.

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.