Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Senior Software Engineer -

Distributed Systems Cary, North Carolina, United States Software and Services Summary Posted:

May 13, 2026

Weekly Hours:

40

Role Number:

200663087-1435 Are you ready to embrace massive scale? Undaunted ingesting petabytes of raw data each day from more than a billion customer devices?

Apple's Data Analytics team is looking for a motivated and driven distributed systems engineer to work on our device telemetry platform. We need a talented software developer to join our tight-knit cross-functional engineering team, building services and applications to parse, persist, and understand how Apple customers use their devices. Description We collect, analyze, and produce insights from diagnostic and usage data from Apple devices. Our data is used to improve products and services and inform the overall direction of Apple platforms.

Our engineering responsibility spans device, data collection, compute, and query and visualization interfaces. As part of the Data Analytics team, you will similarly work cross-functionally to design, build, and iterate on our stream processing and ingestion pipeline.

Collaborating with data scientists and engineers across Apple, you will capture and refine requirements, validate design decisions, and implement. This role has high visibility and impact within the Apple Software Engineering organization. Minimum Qualifications BS degree in Computer Science, equivalent field or equivalent work experience 5+ years SW development experience Have worked on large distributed systems, ideally on a public cloud platform like AWS Extensive experience with container-based orchestration (Kubernetes, EC2, Mesos, etc.) Practical knowledge of queue/stream consumers like Flink or Kinesis Exposure to profiling and optimization of scale compute and data pipelines Unwavering commitment to CI/CD Preferred Qualifications Comfortable and adaptable in a dynamic/informal environment with shifting priorities Excellent verbal and written communication skills Self-motivated and dedicated with creative and critical thinking capabilities Big data query engine production experience (Presto/Trino/Athena, etc.) Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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. At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You'll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong. Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.