Software Engineer, App Store Engineering R&D

Software Engineer, App Store Engineering R&D

Seattle, Washington, United States Software and Services

The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the Apple Music, App Store, Apple TV, Apple Fitness+, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books and more. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 37 languages to more than 175 countries.

These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services.

When this team introduced the App Store, it launched a cultural and economic phenomenon that changed the way people live, work, and play. These engineers continue to innovate the platform, now home to over 1.8 million apps — each created using the team's own software development kit and related services. All those apps mean the store takes billions of requests from more than 500 million visitors every week, across iOS, macOS, tvOS, iPadOS, watch

OS, and vision

OS. To deliver such a rich experience at this scale, the engineers build high-performance systems backed by robust testing. In a world where apps have become essential in people's daily lives, the App Store team has become crucial to Apple's business.

The App Store Engineering R&D team is looking for talented software engineers to build and update the Apps platform. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. We are looking for a self- motivated, high-energy individual with excellent communication skills who are willing to question assumptions, take end- to-end ownership of features and drive them to completion.

You should have experience developing large-scale server- side systems using object-oriented languages.

Some successful attributes include the ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment. Analyze, design, code, inspect, debug, and test features for the data platform. Maintain and improve existing applications in response to new feature requests. Collaborate closely with members of other teams throughout the release cycle. We're a team of consummate tech geeks who love figuring out how things work and trying to make them better.

Sometimes it's a little tweak, sometimes it's a fundamental shift - usually, it's somewhere in between. We brainstorm on whiteboards, share ideas at team lunches and pot-lucks, build prototypes, present proposals to teams, embed for a while to help them get started, check the metrics, and repeat!

Does this sound like you? Join our team!

• At least 4+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting highly scalable backend systems and web services
• Deep understanding and strong hands-on experience in multithreading, networking (including non-blocking IO), HTTP and REST APIs
• Confidence with SQL databases like Oracle and No
  
  SQL databases like Cassandra
• Deep understanding of data modeling, data and metadata management, and scalability challenges in distributed systems
• Be an advocate and driver for performance optimization, automation, and unit tests
• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Excellent debugging, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills
• Diligent attention to detail
• BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, EE, or equivalent industry experience is required.

• Passion and prior experience designing and implementing outstanding large distributed systems
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies like Spark, HDFS, Trino, Solr, Kafka
• Nice to have but not required: previous experience in regulatory and compliance project(s)