SW Dev Engineer -iCloud Products -Backend

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Consider joining a small team writing the software which provides Mail services
to iCloud customers. As a key member on our team, you are responsible for
maintaining our technology stack and for crafting new functionality. You are an
extremely capable engineer who has a strong background in building
high-performance, scalable and extensible systems. You have experience building
public facing services. Your flexibility is essential to delivering creative
features on time with excellent quality, such as the willingness to learn about
the system by fixing bugs. You love collaborating within the team and with
cross-functional engineering teams. In addition to crafting efficient, testable,
easy-to-maintain code, you recognize the importance of writing functional
specifications and design documents. Quality is number one in your mind, and you
thrive on building comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests, not only for
features you build but also for existing features that need more testing. Our
team is looking for hardworking and passionate engineers who want to make a
difference in the products they develop. If you feel this is you, we’d love to
hear from you!

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with C, C++, or Java Strong hands-on experience with debugging and analyzing crashes or core dumps
• Strong knowledge or strong desire to work on cloud infrastructure
• Good knowledge on SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience building public facing APIs and/or services
• Practical experience with architecture and design of cloud-scale systems
• Familiarity with modern server scaling technologies on Linux (e.g., async, non-blocking I/O, multi-threading)
• Practical experience designing, building and maintaining large-scale, high-performance systems and/or frameworks
• Experience working on small team as well as cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to wear multiple hats; possession of do-whatever-it-takes ability and attitude
• Practical experience with RESTful APIs

Nice To Haves

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a loosely structured organization
• Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on a tight schedule
• Secondary scripting language experience a plus
• Working knowledge of containerized environments a plus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed