Software Development Engineer

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Design, develop, and support a multi-tenant platform with many underlying technologies. Partner with teams across Apple to develop and ship new customer-facing features. Drive end-to-end project execution, from design reviews and through production releases. Deploy, scale, and maintain highly concurrent and throughput-intensive services. Triage, investigate, and remediate production and operational issues. Troubleshooting and resolving performance bottlenecks and logical issues in distributed systems, leveraging profiling tools, log analysis and distributed tracing techniques. Collaborating with cross functional teams (development, operations, security and design) to deliver and maintain high-quality distributed systems, leveraging Agile methodologies and DevOps techniques. Implementing security and privacy best practices for cloud-based distributed systems, leveraging security and privacy policies, encryption and network security control. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $226,138 - $272,100/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html.
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Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field and 4 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

3 years of experience with the following skills is required:

Working on large-scale distributed systems.
Leveraging Java or C, or C++, and Python knowledge to design and develop large-scale highly available and scalable distributed systems.
Utilizing observability tools such as Splunk or cloudwatch for log storage and analysis.
Leveraging No-SQL Databases, e.q. FDB and SQL Databases for database interaction.
Utilizing Jenkins and GitHub for continuous integration and source control management.
Leverage micro-service architecture, inter-service communication via gRPC, protobuf or similar to achieve scalable, efficient and reliable service interoperability in distributed systems.
Leveraging Docker and Kubernetes for deploying and managing containerized applications.
Leveraging key management systems (e.g. AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault) for data security design and implementation.

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