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Principal Engineer, Apple Cloud Object Storage (ACOS), Storage Infrastructure at Apple

Department: Software and Services

Compensation · Listed in posting

$205,400 – $374,300

Location
Seattle, Washington
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Apple is seeking a senior storage engineer to own the multi-year architecture and roadmap for ACOS, its exabyte-scale geo-distributed object storage service. The role focuses on storage efficiency, integrity, performance tiers, and capacity planning as Apple transitions to denser drives and supports AI and data workloads. Responsibilities include setting the technical agenda, synthesizing hardware and industry trends, mentoring senior engineers, leading high-consequence system design, and aligning customers, partners, and stakeholders. The position requires 15+ years of software development, 10+ years designing and operating large-scale distributed storage systems, a relevant advanced degree, and deep expertise in encoding, durability, repair, placement, and consensus protocols.

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