Job Details

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200655322-3337

Summary

The Apple Services Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Asset Management team. We are responsible for storing, protecting, and delivering the many petabytes of files used by the content import, management, processing, and distribution systems. Our systems store, track, protect, and deliver every app, song, movie, and video – both streamed and downloaded.

Come help build and run the services and systems that underly the growth of the App Store, Apple TV+, & Apple Music.

Description

You will be working with a small, focused team to design, build, maintain, deploy, support, and enhance new and existing micro-services responsible for the management and protection of content assets within the Apple Services Engineering organization. This includes the development, maintenance, and support various Java client libraries (using HTTP, REST, JSON, and/or GRPC).

We collaborate closely with other teams across Apple to integrate our systems with theirs, and we also perform direct integration with various legacy codebases. Most of our systems have direct customer impact, so curiosity and attention to detail are critical to success.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated technical leadership skills, including uncovering and understanding requirements, system integration design, and cross-team collaboration

• Fluency in Java and related tooling, such as Bazel, Gradle, Maven

• API design and implementation using both JSON and GRPC

• Expertise in data modeling & object-oriented programming

• Knowledge of cryptographic APIs and proper use of cryptographic primitives

• Understanding of authentication and authorization fundamentals

• Protocol-level understanding of HTTP

• Experience with Spark

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cassandra & CQL

• Detailed understanding of S3 & IAM APIs

• Understanding of TCP/IP, networking, and maximizing transfer throughput of very large files

• Practical use of Claude Code for design, review, automation, and implementation

• Experience with JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)

• Experience with Kafka, Flink, and/or Pulsar

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