Apple

Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Golang)

Apple$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering or DevOps experience
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, Rust, or C++
  • Strong experience with large-scale distributed systems, including replication and high availability
  • Experience in Linux/UNIX administration and monitoring
  • Experience in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design and development of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
  • Build and maintain large-scale, resilient satellite communications systems
  • Implement infrastructure as code for deploying and managing services
  • Support provisioning, monitoring, and deployment of customer-facing services
  • Leverage a no-ops culture to streamline operations and improve efficiency

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunity to build and control the entire end-to-end infrastructure
  • Work with cutting-edge technologies in satellite communications
  • Diverse and inclusive company culture
  • Access to training and development programs
Full Job Description
Description

Apple is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with distributed systems and orchestration experience to join the Satellite Communications Group.

Our team builds, monitors, and maintains large scale, highly resilient systems that enable our customers to access communications services via satellite.

You'll be contributing to distributed systems, architecture design, and cloud infrastructure (as code!) for critical and unique customer-facing Apple services.

This is a rare opportunity to build and control the entire end to end infrastructure, along with all supporting components such as provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and software platforms, from the beginning within a team with a no-ops culture

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years Software engineering or DevOps experience

Proficient in at least one of these languages: Python, Go, Rust, C++

Strong experience with large-scale distributed systems (replication, high availability, data processing/streaming)

Strong experience with Linux/UNIX administration, configuration, and monitoring

Have written or contributed to a batch or realtime processing system

Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure): identity & credential management, pub/sub, message queuing.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, Flux, Ansible, etc)

Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Experience with zero-downtime deployments, job scheduling systems, event-based messaging systems

Able to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies

Strong operational and troubleshooting skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability.

Strong familiarity with consensus algorithms (e.g., Raft, Paxos, Zab, etc)

Experience building and operating multi-clustered and highly-available services

Experience with Temporal/Cadence/Windmill or other durable execution platforms

Understanding of zero-trust application architecture

Proven experience building and optimizing real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam, etc.

Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration

Experience with IoT/Edge device compute and infrastructure

Experience or interest in RF, Cellular, Satellite communications (Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, LTE/5G)

Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, vips, load balancers, proxies

Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus

Education: Engineering or technical BS is a positive but not required.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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