Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, iCloud Platform

Apple

San Francisco, USonsite$150k-$278k/yrPosted Dec 14, 2025
Posting intelligenceMay be filled, listed long ago

Skills

kubernetesc++swiftjavago

About the role

This is your chance to put a dent in the Universe. You will work with world-class teams who have a real passion for engineering and delivering features that maintain strong privacy guarantees to end users.

Description

As a high-leverage team, we are responsible for designing, building, and growing Apple’s foundational privacy-focused platform. This platform enables many of Apple’s signature applications and experiences and has a significant impact on over a billion users. Our work is crucial to the success of Apple’s growth in the services sector.","responsibilities":"Partner with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality to enable new experiences in the Apple ecosystem

Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of our services

Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth across multiple dimensions

Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues

Preferred Qualifications

Excellent communication skills, able to build relationships with diverse groups of people

Experienced in managing technical and organizational complexity, able to drive a project from a simple idea to production

Adept at approaching problems from a position of curiosity, working with flexibility to find innovative solutions

Understanding of cryptographic protocols, data encryption, secure key management, and security architecture

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems

Industry experience with programming languages such as Java, Swift, C/C++, or Go

Experience in performance benchmarking, debugging, and tuning distributed systems

Experience in cloud deployment and observability technologies, such as Kubernetes

Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience

Pay & Benefits

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 $150,400 and $277,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Compensation

This Software Engineer role pays $150k-$278k/yr. Within typical range for software engineer roles in United States.

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