Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering
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Job overview
Apple is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to develop next-generation cloud services infrastructure for CloudKit, its privacy-focused database platform. CloudKit stores and synchronizes customer data across Apple devices and supports Apple and third-party applications. The engineer will introduce capabilities and scale services in a complex environment, with a focus on fault-tolerant distributed systems and customer experience.
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Role Number: 200689303-3337
Summary
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next-generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on CloudKit, Apple’s foundational privacy-focused database platform, which securely stores users’ data and seamlessly keeps it synchronized across all their Apple devices.
Description
CloudKit manages data at a massive scale! It is a strongly-consistent database of structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. Considered the bedrock of iCloud, it is purpose built to be performant, highly available, and extremely scalable. CloudKit is a framework designed to the highest standards of user privacy that not only empowers developers to build highly collaborative and secure applications but is also the storage foundation for Apple’s signature cloud experiences, such as Photos, Drive, Notes, Keynote, News, and many third-party applications!
We are a world-class team who has a real passion for engineering and delivering high quality services to Apple’s customers. As a key member of a versatile organization, you will introduce new fundamental capabilities that will help power entirely new applications and scale existing ones.
We are looking for engineers who have exceptional expertise in building fault-tolerant distributed systems. Our engineers demonstrate unique leadership skills and can excel in a complex environment that obsesses about the customer experience.
Minimum Qualifications
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7+ years of industry experience developing software in Java, C, or C++ Experience working with distributed NoSQL and relational database technologies
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Expertise in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworks
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Expertise in programming in concurrent and multi-threaded environments
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Industry experience building and operating large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems
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Bachelor’s degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience
Preferred Qualifications
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Strong background with KV data stores, e.g., FoundationDB, DynamoDB, or Cassandra
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Strong fundamentals in storage systems, e.g., schema design, indexes, and transactions
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Familiar with high-performance caching mechanisms, e.g., Redis or Memcached
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Familiar with event streaming and queueing systems, e.g., Kafka
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Experience using AWS, GCP, and cloud-native technologies (Containers, Kubernetes, gRPC)
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Experience with TLS, X.509 certificates, or similar security and cryptographic protocols
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.
How this job compares
Set against the 42,014 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Washington median$144–216K/yr1,978 salary ranges
- Washington median$52–69/hr38 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,212 open Software Engineer jobs in Washington and 42,014 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (34,413 postings).
- Education
- 13,315 of the 42,014 open Software Engineer jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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