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# Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Golang)

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** LTE (Telecommunication), Amazon Web Services, Applications Architecture, Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Bluetooth, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Job Scheduling, Python (Programming Language), Queueing Systems, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Wi-Fi Technology, Data Processing, Google Cloud, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Apache Spark, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Puppet, Terraform, Splunk, Network Server, Data Pipelines, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.beyondsandiego.com/job.asp?id=3348881707&tx=KR4141FFF&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 5+ years Software engineering or DevOps experience
 * Proficient in at least one of these languages: Python, Go, Rust, C++ Strong experience with large-scale distributed systems (replication, high availability, data processing/streaming)
 * Strong experience with Linux/UNIX administration, configuration, and monitoring
 * Have written or contributed to a batch or realtime processing system
 * Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure): identity & credential management, pub/sub, message queuing
 * Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, Flux, Ansible, etc)
 * Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
 * Experience with zero-downtime deployments, job scheduling systems, event-based messaging systems
 * Able to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies
 * Strong operational and troubleshooting skills., * Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability.
 * Strong familiarity with consensus algorithms (e.g., Raft, Paxos, Zab, etc)
 * Experience building and operating multi-clustered and highly-available services
 * Experience with Temporal/Cadence/Windmill or other durable execution platforms
 * Understanding of zero-trust application architecture
 * Proven experience building and optimizing real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam, etc.
 * Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration
 * Experience with IoT/Edge device compute and infrastructure
 * Experience or interest in RF, Cellular, Satellite communications (Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, LTE/5G)
 * Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, vips, load balancers, proxies
 * Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus
 * Education: Engineering or technical BS is a positive but not required.

## Description

Apple is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with distributed systems and orchestration experience to join the Satellite Communications Group. Our team builds, monitors, and maintains large scale, highly resilient systems that enable our customers to access communications services via satellite. You'll be contributing to distributed systems, architecture design, and cloud infrastructure (as code!) for critical and unique customer-facing Apple services. This is a rare opportunity to build and control the entire end to end infrastructure, along with all supporting components such as provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and software platforms, from the beginning within a team with a no-ops culture.


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