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Sr. Software Engineer, Customer Systems at Apple

Sr. Software Engineer, Customer Systems

Apple · Austin, TX, US

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Sr. Software Engineer, Customer Systems

Apple · Austin, TX, US

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About the Role

Design and build microservices powering low-latency, high-throughput customer experiences, serving over a million users daily across Apple Support websites, iOS apps, and phone-based frontends.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build microservices powering low-latency, high-throughput customer experiences
  • Serve over a million users daily across Apple Support websites, iOS apps, and phone-based frontends
  • Lead software projects within a team as a tech lead (TL)
  • Mentor software engineers
  • Leverage GenAI coding tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle, enhance code quality, and streamline debugging and testing processes
  • Design and implement high-scale, high-performance, highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure cloud-based distributed systems
  • Design APIs and implement them using RESTful API principles, gRPC, GraphQL, contract-first design, API versioning strategies, gateway patterns, rate limiting, and designing APIs for backward compatibility and long-term evolution
  • Implement caching strategies and in-memory data technologies

Requirements

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience
  • 5+ years proven experience developing software in a professional capacity
  • 2+ years proven experience with Java, including proficiency in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization techniques
  • Proficiency in OOP principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns (e.g. GoF), with a proven focus on implementing testable, maintainable, and extensible backend code
  • Experience building production applications with the Spring ecosystem (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, etc.), including proficiency in dependency injection, auto-configuration, reactive programming with WebFlux, and designing microservices using Spring-based patterns
  • Solid understanding of advanced JVM internals (e.g. garbage collection, memory allocation, JIT, JNI, etc.)
  • Experience designing, implementing, and shipping high-scale, high-performance, highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure cloud-based distributed systems
  • Solid knowledge of networking concepts, protocols, and infrastructure (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, CDN, load balancing, edge computing, DNS, Zero Trust architecture, etc.)

Skills

  • Java
  • Concurrency
  • Memory management
  • Performance optimization
  • OOP principles
  • Data structures
  • Algorithms
  • Software design patterns
  • Spring ecosystem
  • Dependency injection
  • Auto-configuration
  • Reactive programming
  • WebFlux
  • Microservices
  • JVM internals
  • Cloud-based distributed systems
  • Networking concepts
  • HTTP/HTTPS
  • TCP/IP
  • CDN
  • Load balancing
  • Edge computing
  • DNS
  • Zero Trust architecture
  • GenAI coding tools
  • Go
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • API design
  • RESTful API principles
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • Contract-first design
  • OpenAPI/Swagger
  • Protobuf
  • API versioning
  • Gateway patterns
  • Rate limiting
  • Caching strategies
  • In-memory data technologies
  • Redis
  • Memcached
  • Hazelcast
  • Ehcache

Location

  • Remote

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 5+ years
  • Longer experience preferred

Education Level

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience

About the Company

  • Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them.
  • IS&T is Apple’s central nervous system, supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly.
  • Customer Systems is part of IS&T and drives the technology behind Apple's customer support experience — from contact center operations to the software powering the iconic Genius Bar.
  • The team also builds and operates AppleCare's online support platform, which handles 6 billion visits per year, delivering seamless, high-quality support to Apple customers around the globe.