About the position
There are job opportunities, and then there are career-defining moments. This might be yours. You will join a fast-paced and high growth team within the Apple Cloud organization with opportunity to have a direct impact on the company results. You will help build the team's culture, and participate in defining the technology and engineering practices. You will not only be building mission-critical backend services to support iCloud Photos on iOS, VisionOS and macOS platforms used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide, but you will work with and learn from some of the best engineers that you can only find at Apple. We’d love to hear from you! Our team is in charge of iCloud Photos, and this brings phenomenal visibility to our work. We know our product is great, but we also believe we can make it even better. We need your engineering skills as well as your product ideas to define and build the next generation of features that your friends and family are going to use. You will get to collaborate with many engineering teams across Apple, therefore good communication and relationship-building skills are essential to your success. Having an inquisitive mind and asking questions will help you not only achieve immediate results, but also inspire new ideas for your next killer feature. At AppleCloud, we're very invested in your personal growth. We will work with you to define your career goals and help you get closer to them with mentorship, training and education.
Requirements
- 5+ proven experience in crafting, developing and maintaining high-performance distributed systems and services using Java
- Experience in NoSQL databases such as Cassandra
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals and multi-thread programming experience
- Curiosity for independently learning new technologies
- Proficiency in planning and executing projects, including designing data models and storage systems
- Expertise in managing data flows, developing APIs, selecting caching strategies
- Deep experience in building, deploying, and optimizing robust, scalable, and maintainable services
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of Swift and/or Objective C is a plus
- Passion for quality with a keen eye for detail
- An interest in working on consumer facing products
