Sr. Software Backend Engineer, App Processing Team
The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Appleʼs long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple's high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of content in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services.
Thanks to Appleʼs unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep commitment to strengthening Appleʼs privacy policy, one of Appleʼs core values. Although services are a bigger part of Appleʼs business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.
We are looking for a forward thinking self-starter to join our App Processing team. Our team, part of the Apple Services Engineering organization, is responsible for engineering and running the systems and pipelines that process apps uploaded to the App Store. This is a hands-on engineering role on the team whose software validates, ingests, thins, signs and performs other processing of apps to the App Store. There are very few teams that have the breadth of involvement in Apple's product pipeline across the board as that exercised by this team! We are a highly collaborative group of engineers with a wide variety of experiences and abilities, deep knowledge of software engineering and passionately committed to building resilient, highly performant and maintainable systems that serve our customers' needs as they evolve.
You will participate in crafting and implementing logic for ingesting apps that demonstrate new features in future devices and upcoming versions of iOS, tvOS, visionOS and macOS. You will implement functionality that analyzes apps on ingest, extracting and storing information displayed on the App Store, and used in the App Store's review and curation processes. You will implement enhancements and improvements to the workflow by which apps are thinned, encrypted, signed, and otherwise processed for distribution to TestFlight and the App Store. We are hiring a self starting, high-energy individual who is not afraid to question assumptions and has excellent interpersonal skills. We look for extraordinary teammates who are able to tackle problems under tight deadline constraints and deliver imaginative solutions.
Does this sound like you? Join our team!
- At least 5 years hands-on experience with Java, Rust, C# or Swift in a backend system Expertise in Object Oriented Design and Programming
- Experience in taking a reasonably large area of functionality live into Production
- Experience in building application server components and services
- Experience in schema design for a high-performance database like Cassandra Experience in schema design for a relational database like Oracle
- Experience deploying software on elastic platforms such as Kubernetes is a huge plus
- Experience in integrating with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a huge plus
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Experience deploying software on elastic platforms such as Kubernetes, EC2, Mesos, etc.
- Experience in integrating with PKI
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