Sr. Software Engineer (Distributed System)

The web crawl infrastructure you’ll work on is a large-scale, distributed system that fetches, renders, and extracts structured knowledge from billions of web pages - powering Siri, Apple Intelligence, Spotlight, Apple Maps, and more. We’re looking for an engineer who doesn’t just build distributed systems but who leverages modern AI coding tools as a core part of their daily engineering workflow to move faster, write higher-quality code, and tackle more ambitious problems than traditional development cycles allow.

This is a deeply technical role embedded in a production platform with strict latency SLOs, complex failure domains, and high operational stakes.

You’ll work across the full crawl lifecycle, from how

requests are scheduled and dispatched, to how pages are fetched and rendered, to how structured data is extracted and delivered downstream. As a member of this team, you will own the critical components of the systems and will be responsible for shaping the roadmap.

Do you have experience in Virtual Private Clouds?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, Experience in Web Crawl is a plus

Headless browser infrastructure at scale is a plus

Flink or Spark streaming/batch pipelines over Iceberg is a plus

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years or experience building scalable distributed systems at scale

Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.

Strong systems programming background - Rust, Scala, or Go

Solid understanding of async programming models, queue-based architectures, and at-least-once / exactly-once delivery semantics

Deep expertise of Cloud infrastructure deployments, managing workloads across heterogeneous clusters (EKS and/or bare-metal)

Hands-on Kubernetes experience - multi-cluster, resource tuning, HPA, rolling deployment

Hands-on AWS experience: SQS, S3, MSK (Kafka), EKS, IAM, VPC, Transit Gateways

Familiarity with Kafka - topic management, consumer group lag, partition rebalancing

Experience defining metrics, writing alert rules, and building dashboards for distributed services

Excellent interpersonal skills able to work independently as well as cross-functionally

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

4.14.1 out of 5 stars Santa Clara, CA $139,500 - $258,100 a year, Pulled from the full job description

• Employee stock purchase plan
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Dental insurance
• RSU, At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $139,500 and $258,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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