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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Software Engineer (Distributed System) - **Company:** Apple Inc. - **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $139,500.0 - $258,100.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Apple Maps, Cloud Computing, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, System Programming, Web Pages, Siri, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Flink, Bare Metal, Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Virtual Private Clouds - **Published:** May 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a14f0ae2b479a10b ## About the Role 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. ## Description 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. 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