Software Engineer, Observability

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is building the next generation of foundational tools that empower software developers at Apple to build products that our customers love. The Observability team within ASE is a fast moving, highly skilled team this is designing and building a suite of platforms and services that help Apple engineers observe and get insights into their systems. If the thought of working with petabytes of data interests you, this is the place to be. Our systems must scale globally, stay highly available, and “just work”, while supporting some of the largest services in world. That’s a tall order, and we’re looking to add more talented and passionate engineers who love challenges. If you’d love to join this amazing team, we’d love to hear from you.

Description

Your responsibilities will include : Requirement gathering across cross functional teams - Developing practical, fault-tolerant high-performance distributed systems. - Leading and participating in technical design discussions across cross functional teams. Gain in-depth understanding of the domain and come up with creative ideas in the domain. - Willingness to lead an independent research in the field of work. - Mentor other engineers in the team. You will have the courage and experience to be frank and ambitious but humble enough to listen to others. We want your thoughts on how we can move faster, be more creative, and deliver tools and ideas to empower developers around the world. We expect you to challenge the status quo, to care about the details, the end user, and how it all comes together. We are looking for enthusiastic developers to join as a member of this collaborative and friendly team. You should be someone with ideas and passion for software delivered as a service to maximize reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. Your work will impact millions of Apple users and is necessary to the success of some of the most visible current and future features.

Minimum Qualifications

BS or MS in CS or equivalent 8+ years of industry experience Experience with Java Experience with designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable infrastructure services Deep understanding and work experience in distributed systems Deep understanding of core CS concepts including data structures, algorithms and concurrent programming Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities Great communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana Experience building Observability platforms is preferred Experience designing and using columnar storage Familiarity with time series database internals Passion for developing and testing clear, robust code Ability to learn and apply new technologies and frameworks.