Senior Software Engineer (Observability Solutions) - Enterprise Technology Services at Apple

Department: Software and Services

Compensation · Listed in posting

$216,200 – $324,800

Location: Sunnyvale, California
Level: senior
Posted: May 11, 2026

Description

Apple IS&T is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build a high-availability, fault-tolerant distributed observability platform handling petabyte-scale data. The role focuses on Go backend services, technical architecture, performance optimization, engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in a relevant field, at least three years of Go experience, experience with large data workloads and RDBMS or NoSQL systems, and at least 10 years of overall experience.

Required Skills

Go
Distributed systems
RDBMS
NoSQL
Prometheus
Elasticsearch
APM

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
Required Previous Experiences: At least 3 years of Go experience
Experience building or scaling systems handling large data workloads
Experience with RDBMS or NoSQL systems
At least 10 years of overall experience
Preferred Qualifications: Experience building or operating observability platforms, including Prometheus, Elasticsearch, and APM tools
Experience designing and operating distributed systems
Strong understanding of database internals, including storage engines, query optimization, transaction management, indexing, and consistency models
Production experience building backend services or infrastructure components in Go

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