CloudKit Client Software Engineer

Austin,Texas,United States

Software and Services

Imagine what we could do together. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what we could accomplish. Apple is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next generation of cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on key components of the Apple cloud platform and introducing new fundamental capabilities. Your work will help to power entirely new applications and scale existing ones, such as FaceTime, PushNotifications, iCloud Drive, Photos, and Backup. This is your chance to put a dent in the Universe. You will work with elite teams who have a real passion for engineering and delivering features that maintain strong privacy guarantees to end users.

Description

We work on the device side of iCloud, building frameworks such as CloudKit and NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore that provide the foundations for secure and private cloud storage and computation. This position will involve close collaboration with engineers across Apple, covering dependencies below our frameworks and adopters above them. This job entails systems programming tasks such as synchronization protocol design, IPC, multi-process performance considerations, and API design. Reliability is essential, and we’re looking for engineers who are passionate about building complex systems that will seamlessly recover in the event of errors. In this role, you will: • Work with adopters to craft flexible and ergonomic APIs • Work with OS partners to build performant architectures • Work with our server counterparts to design scalable features and protocols • Work with teammates to help maintain and evolve test automation

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years of Software Engineering experience with strong programming skills in Objective-C and/or Swift

Experienced with Agile Software Development Methodologies

Interested in building system-level frameworks and APIs

Interested in Swift concurrency

Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building scalable frameworks or applications on Apple Platforms (macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, etc.)

Experience building systems that are cryptographically secured and private

Ability to build relationships with diverse groups of people

Self-motivated

Excellent communication skills

Education Experience

Additional Requirements

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