Apple · 3 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Information Systems & Technology
Austin, Texas, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
8+ years expApple is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in their Information Systems and Technology group, which serves as the nerve center for the company. The role involves architecting, designing, developing, testing, documenting, improving, and maintaining code primarily in Java, while collaborating with various teams and senior leadership to enhance systems and applications that support Apple customers and employees.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Architect, design, develop, test, document, improve, and maintain code mostly in Java (and other languages as needed)
Partake in every aspect of projects, from planning to design to implementation and future iterations
Play an extended role in designing solutions, and leading software projects
Qualification
Required
B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience
8+ years proven experience developing software in a professional capacity. Longer experience strongly preferred
5+ years proven experience designing, implementing, and shipping high-scale, high-performance, highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure cloud-based distributed systems, including mastery in API design and implementation (e.g. REST, RPC, GraphQL, etc.)
5+ years proven experience using relational (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, etc.) and NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.) databases, including mastery in schema design, query optimization, and managing sophisticated data interactions between relational/NoSQL systems
4+ years proven experience with Java, including mastery in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization techniques
Mastery in OOP principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns (e.g. GoF), with a proven focus on implementing testable, maintainable, and extensible backend code
Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with various internal and external partners, and senior leaders
Preferred
Track record of leading software projects that span multiple, distributed teams as a tech lead (TL), while mentoring senior-level software engineers
Comfortable using CI/CD tools to build, test, deploy, and release containerized software applications on cloud-based Kubernetes (e.g. AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS, etc.)
Expertise in Java web (e.g. ServiceTalk, Spring, Dropwizard, Quarkus, Micronaut, etc.) and unit testing frameworks (e.g. JUnit, Mockito, etc.)
Experience with tooling languages (e.g. Go, Python, Ruby, etc.) and distributed orchestration & computing systems (e.g. Airflow, Spark, Flink, etc.)
Strong understanding of advanced JVM internals (e.g. garbage collection, memory allocation, JIT, JNI, etc.)
Extensive knowledge of networking concepts & protocols (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS, CDN, edge computing, load balancing, OSI model, etc.)
Company
Apple
Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$5.67BKey Investors
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Leadership Team
Tim Cook
CEO
Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering
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