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About the Role
Join our Sports Backend Infrastructure team and build the engine that powers real-time sports experiences for millions of fans! As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the highly available, real-time data services that ingest, process, and distribute sports data at massive scale. Your work will focus on building and optimizing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, ensuring exceptional performance, reliability, and scalability. You’ll leverage industry-standard best practices for distributed architectures and collaborate with world-class engineers to deliver impactful features and execute on our technical roadmap. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing, and maintaining highly available, real-time data services
- Ingesting, processing, and distributing sports data at massive scale
- Building and optimizing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
- Ensuring exceptional performance, reliability, and scalability
- Leveraging industry-standard best practices for distributed architectures
- Collaborating with world-class engineers to deliver impactful features
- Executing on the technical roadmap
- Providing technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience building and deploying scalable, distributed systems in a production environment
- Demonstrated experience applying both Object-Oriented and Functional programming principles
- Solid understanding of concurrency control mechanisms
- Solid understanding of fundamental data structures
- Solid understanding of efficient algorithm design
- Proven ability to design and implement systems with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability
Skills
- Java
- Databases such as Cassandra and Redis
- Stream processing platforms like Kafka
- Building and optimizing real-time data pipelines
- Data ingestion
- Data transformation
- Data delivery
- Container orchestration using Kubernetes
- Building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Stream processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Flink, Apache Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams)
- Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
About the Company
- Apple is where individual imaginations capture to build innovative products, services, and experiences that enrich lives worldwide.
- By encouraging a culture of collaboration and diversity, we strengthen each other’s ideas, unlocking innovation that runs through everything we do.
- Join us, and you’ll do more than be part of something - you’ll add something.
- Apple Sports is looking for an expert Backend Engineer to help redefine how users experience sports through the Apple Sports app, Apple TV, and more.
- As part of the Sports team, you’ll collaborate with world-class engineers to create reliable, scalable solutions for processing and displaying real-time sports data.
- This is an outstanding opportunity to shape the sports experience for millions of users worldwide.