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Software Engineer - Trust & Safety Solutions Engineer

Austin, Texas, United StatesOnsiteFull Time$147,400–$272,100 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Apple's Trust & Safety group is seeking a Software Engineer to build and support large-scale, low-latency risking systems for fraud and abuse prevention. This role involves coding, designing, architecting, and evolving distributed systems using technologies like Java/Scala, relational/non-relational databases, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and Cassandra. Experience with microservices, event-driven applications, and machine learning is preferred. The position requires 3+ years of experience with large-scale enterprise applications and distributed systems, with a focus on building and operating highly available and scalable solutions.

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The Trust & Safety group is responsible for protecting Apple services, customers and developers from fraud and abuse. On the solutions team, you will be tasked with building and supporting our Trust & Safety risking systems at Apple scale.
Description
Our ability to rapidly build and deploy effective fraud-fighting solutions to production is critical in our fight with fraudsters and abusers. Our solutions team is at the heart of this, building and supporting Services to make high-volume, low-latency risking systems for making decisions at scale and working on integrations to make decisions that protect our customers.
Not only must we be able to quickly respond to our adversaries, we also have to be able to run seamlessly across different execution contexts such as real-time, near real-time and batch utilizing diverse stacks such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra and beyond.
This is a software engineering role, where a large part of an engineer's time is spent writing code with the remainder being spent on designing, architecting and evolving our systems in partnership with our Platform team, tuning and debugging, supporting production systems.
If you love services, big data, distributed systems, have an interest in ML and have a curiosity with the internal workings of these systems, we'd love to talk with you about joining our team!
Preferred Qualifications
MS in Computer Science or related field
Experience with big data and machine learning systems, tools, and technologies
Experience building microservices or event-driven applications from the ground up
Minimum Qualifications
BS or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
3 or more years of experience working on large-scale, enterprise applications using Java/Scala and related technologies
Experience in relational and non-relational database systems
Experience designing and operating highly distributed, scalable, and highly available systems
Excellent communication skills to support requirements analysis and clearly articulate design and trade-offs","internalDetails":null
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 $147,400 and $272,100, 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.

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