Senior Backend Software Engineer, Emerging Technology Solutions

About the role

Apple’s Emerging Technologies team is building a world‑class perimeter security platform that protects mission‑critical services across multiple network layers. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer you will design and develop the control‑plane of this platform, working closely with data‑plane and cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑performance, highly available services.

Key responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and implementation of low‑latency batch and real‑time data pipelines for massive security data.
• Architect, deploy and scale resilient micro‑services that power customer‑facing anti‑abuse engines.
• Champion a “you build it, you own it” culture by setting standards and owning system health, performance and automation.
• Build robust automation, auto‑healing, chaos testing and CI/CD pipelines to ensure business continuity.
• Drive AI‑assisted development tools and modern engineering practices to increase developer velocity.
• Design large‑scale NoSQL, relational and in‑memory data architectures for real‑time risk evaluation.
• Define enterprise‑grade observability, telemetry and alerting strategies.

Required profile

• Self‑directed senior engineer with hands‑on coding experience.
• Proven track record building and tuning high‑performance services.
• Experience designing scalable, distributed systems.
• Leadership experience in platform or data engineering.

Required skills

• Micro‑services architecture
• Distributed systems design
• NoSQL and relational databases
• In‑memory data stores
• CI/CD pipelines and automation
• Observability, telemetry and alerting
• AI‑assisted development tools
• High‑performance service optimization