Performance Engineer - Retail Engineering

Austin, Texas, United States
Software and Services

Summary

Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200562412
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, phenomenal 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. Apple Online Store is looking for a highly motivated software engineer to join the Apple Online Store Engineering team. You will deliver projects sought at improving the hugely successful Apple Online Store's e-commerce experience and features - www.apple.com/shop We are looking for someone who has a proven track record in crafting and developing high quality enterprise software solutions. This position requires a hands on person, who is passionate about understanding the details of a problem, can think about diMerent solutions and can direct a team by example when the time to execute comes. You will work with a meaningful set of technologies and concepts such as, Java, Scala, Microservices, AWS, Event Driven Architectures, Oracle, No-SQL DB etc. This is an exciting role, demanding a strong technology background and collaboration skills to be able to support software that meets high standards from a functional standpoint and demands operational excellence in both production and non production environments.

Description

We are looking for a self-starting, upbeat individual with excellent written and communication skills, who is a great teammate, but not afraid to question assumptions and take initiative. As part of the AOS Performance Engineering team, your responsibilities ensuring that software, hardware, and systems are eMicient and operate well working closely with application and service engineering teams, and interacting with product, design, content, QA and many other groups to lead and deliver extraordinary e-commerce experience from merchandising to checkout on all platforms (Web, MOW and Native iOS) in an exciting fast-paced environment. We're looking for a hard-working person to join this amazing team, if you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you. At Apple, code and functional quality is always at the forefront and one of the key measures of Success.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years of overall experience in Software performance engineering in a professional setting
Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Good understanding on performance engineering concepts like perf modeling, application
  • Performance testing tool like Jmeter, K8, Gatling. Experience in programming in Java, Scala or any other object oriented programming language with deep understanding of object oriented concepts

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge of computer science, with an in-depth understanding of data structures, algorithms, and Service Oriented Architectures
Knowledge on No-SQL , RDS DB like Cassandra, Mongo DB, Couchbase, Oracle Knowledge on multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, multi-threaded and reliable web services
  • Excellent knowledge of web technologies such as HTTP, cookies, AJAX, etc.
Experience with EKS, Containerization, Serverless Technologies, SNS/SQS, ElastiCache, S3 and Kubernetes is a plus.
Experience working with a large scale consumer facing websites is a plus
Experience scaling distributed systems to handle millions of concurrent requests is desirable
  • BS or MS degree with a minimum 3 years experience

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.