Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world?
Join Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization.
From Apple  Apple's website to data centers around the globe, IS&T's engineers, designers, and creators manage the massive systems and services that power Apple.
IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for employees and customers.
It's not traditional IT - it's Apple's central nervous system.
From supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices to securing every transaction, download, and interaction, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.
Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here?
Sales and Operations Engineering is part of IS&T and drives the technology behind Apple's global operations, sales, and supply chain.
The team connects the systems that move products from factory to customer - bridging sales platforms with the operational infrastructure that keeps Apple running at scale and ensuring Apple's technology and business priorities move in lockstep.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop, test, document, improve, and maintain code mostly in Java (and other languages as needed).
You will partake in every aspect of your projects, from planning to design to implementation and future iterations.
The ideal candidate is self-motivated, pro-active and results-driven.
Attention to detail, dedication to providing high-quality solutions modeling engineering excellence, and ability to work towards on-time delivery of projects are all crucial qualities needed to work at Apple as a Software Engineer.
The ideal candidate will also possess excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with various members of their immediate and extended team.
B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience.
3+ years experience developing software in a professional capacity.
2+ years proven experience implementing cloud-based distributed systems, including familiarity with API implementation (e.g. REST, RPC, GraphQL, etc).
2+ years experience using relational (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, etc) and No

SQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, etc).
2+ years experience with Java.
2+ years experience with middleware technologies like Software AG web Methods, SAP-BTP CPI, Mulesoft.
Exposure to 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).
Familiarity with Java web (e.g. Service Talk, Spring, Dropwizard, Quarkus, Micronaut, etc) and unit testing frameworks (e.g. JUnit, Mockito, etc).
Familiarity with tooling languages (e.g. Go, Python, Ruby, etc) and distributed orchestration & computing systems (e.g. Airflow, Spark, Flink, etc).
Basic understanding of JVM internals (e.g. garbage collection, memory allocation, JIT, JNI, etc).
Basic knowledge of networking concepts & protocols (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS, CDN, edge computing, load balancing, OSI model, etc).
Familiarity with OOP principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns (e.g. GoF), with a focus on implementing testable, maintainable, and extensible backend code.