Job Details

Software Development Engineer - Apps

Cupertino, California, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: May 22, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200603607

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Seattle, Washington. Use Java and knowledge of iOS internals to create services that automate provisioning, installation, and analysis of third-party apps submitted to the app store, and capture information about apps such as network logs, screenshots, and database usage. Design machine learning models for identifying, tagging, and classifying fraudulent apps to assist the app review teams tasked with manually reviewing all incoming apps. Query distributed nosql databases and aggregate terabytes of data to identify trends that will help improve the performance of our massive device cluster. Monitor and triage issues with this device cluster to keep it fully operational and online 24/7. Write and deploy automated testing software on clusters of prototype devices to identify OS bugs and performance issues. Use Typescript to visualize all of this data in front end web applications for usage across the company. 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 $163,862 - $204,000/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.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems Management or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

• 3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:

• Using Java with ServiceTalk (or equivalent framework) and Guice to build RESTful web services.

• Using Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and programming techniques with multithreading, caching, and batching to develop performant and extensible code and services.

• Applying agile engineering practices to quickly develop microservices and iterate on them in response to customer feedback.

• Build CI/CD pipelines with canary testing to deploy large distributed systems across multiple stages and regions.

• Using Bash Scripting with Sed, Awk, Grep, and JQ to write scripts and CLI tools.

• Writing robust code in TypeScript with Node.js.

• Developing ETL pipelines using big data solutions to transfer data from databases to cloud object storage systems.

• Using Kubernetes or AWS Fargate to deploy and manage cloud-native containerized applications.

• Using application monitoring tools such as Splunk or Amazon CloudWatch to publish logs and metrics, visualize service performance, and troubleshoot production issues.

• Storing terabytes of data in distributed NoSQL databases using Cassandra or DynamoDB.

• Implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Ansible or AWS CDK to automate infrastructure provisioning.

• Using Apache Kafka or Amazon SQS to handle message queuing in microservices and serverless applications across data centers.

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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