Summary

The Retail and Enterprise Network Development team is seeking a creative, self-motivated and highly skilled engineer to design, construct, and optimize orchestration and observability applications for our extensive global network infrastructure and services. The ideal candidate will lead a global team in developing and maintaining scalable, high-availability applications and services. Success in this role necessitates the engineer possess exceptional leadership, collaboration and communication abilities.

Description

The Retail and Enterprise Network Development Team is responsible for software solutions that help our network operators deploy infrastructure and monitor services in Apple retail stores, offices, labs and manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities of this role include building, scaling and supporting our orchestration and observability solutions used to manage those network environments. You will be required to mentor junior engineers, work with key stakeholders, engage partners about network management and automation strategies and clearly present strategies. The Senior Network Services Software Engineer will be expected to be a thought leader-steering strategies to create broader organizational efficiencies. This person will need to obsess over the customer experience and drive operational excellence in their everyday work. Besides a strong technical role, this position also requires strong people skills and an individual who enjoys the dynamic nature of Apple's environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and robust software systems
• Lead architectural decisions and implement best practices in software design
• Collaborate with cross-functional/global teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Optimize application performance and ensure high availability
• Mentor junior developers and provide technical leadership to the team
• Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality standards are met
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• Professional experience in Go and Python software development
• Professional experience leveraging common database systems (PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, MongoDB)
• Professional experience building and managing software applications at scale
• Professional experience with modern DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, containerization (e.g. Docker, K8s), and orchestrating both physical and cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RESTful API design and implementation
• Experience writing effective unit tests and debugging skills
• Applied knowledge of network protocols and security practices

Familiar with :

• Software Development Lifecycle
• Web Application Development
• API Development
• Systems Networking

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.