Apple

Staff Software Engineer, ASE Storage team

Apple$160K — $190K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10 years of professional software development experience on software or infrastructure systems
  • 5 years of experience with distributed systems
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Proficiency in Rust, C++, Java, or C#
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Responsibilities

  • Directly impact backend direction for critical Apple internet services
  • Design and maintain software to enhance Apple's internal cloud infrastructure
  • Make availability/performance tradeoffs while prioritizing durability
  • Implement features for a distributed key-value store
  • Collaborate with internal teams for improved reliability
  • Develop testable, maintainable code and scalable processes

Benefits

  • Collaborative and friendly team environment
  • Opportunities to work on innovative and high-impact projects
  • Access to modern technologies and methodologies
  • Focus on professional growth and skill development
  • Involvement in designing the future of critical infrastructure
Full Job Description
We are looking for a passionate lead engineer/architect with experience in developing large-scale services and infrastructure to take a central role in designing and building our next version. Join our friendly, collaborative, highly-motivated team!

Description

We are looking for collaborative, curious, and pragmatic Software Engineers to be part of this innovative team. In this role, you will:

Directly impact the direction for the backend of many critical Apple internet services for years to come.

Designing, building and maintaining the software and services to improve the feature set, availability, scalability and security of Apple's internal cloud infrastructure.

Ability to make tradeoffs on availability and performance while prioritizing durability are crucial.

Design and implement features for a distributed key-value store like automatic repairs, shard splits and rebalances.

Massively scalable, currently spread across 2000+ hosts and handles 5M+ transactions per second to support critical infrastructural systems and frameworks.

We are building a strongly consistent, distributed, ordered key-value database using custom transaction log on Raft/ZAB using RocksDB as storage engine.

Collaborate with internal teams, including customer teams and the storage reliability engineering team.

Focused on building testable, maintainable code and scalable processes across the team.

Minimum Qualifications

10 years of professional software development experience on software or infrastructure systems

5 years of experience building and operating distributed systems

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.

Experience coding in one or more of these programming languages: Rust, C++, Java or C#

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

MS or PhD in Computer Science

Proven track record for building, launching and operating large-scale production internet services

Knowledge of Java, non-blocking and thread safe programming

Knowledge of distributed databases, distributed storage, or similar mass-scale Distributed Systems

Familiarity with RocksDB

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.

Apple Careers

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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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