Software Engineer, Observability

San Francisco Bay Area, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-28

Core

Designing and building scalable platforms and services to help Apple engineers observe and gain insights into their systems.

Role type

Senior IC distributed systems engineer (observability)

Builds

High-performance distributed systems and observability platforms for Apple engineers

Domain

Cloud infrastructure + Observability

Required skills

Java, distributed systems design, scalable infrastructure services, data structures, algorithms, concurrent programming

Preferred skills

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, columnar storage, time series database internals

Technologies

Java, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, columnar storage, time series databases

Responsibilities

Develop fault-tolerant high-performance distributed systems, lead technical design discussions, conduct independent research, mentor engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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