About the Role

The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple's long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a substantial scale, meeting Apple's high expectations with dedication to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple's unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep dedication to strengthening Apple's privacy policy, one of Apple's core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple's business than ever before, these teams remain small, forward-thinking, and multi-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.

The Core Services team at Apple Services Engineering is looking for a software engineer to help build scalable and creative features that delight hundreds of millions of customers around the world on App Store, Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Books, Podcasts, Music Kit, i Tunes etc. across multiple platforms on iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS.

Description

• You will be part of the server team that powers customer-facing features within the Apple client applications
• Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple TV, App Store, Apple Arcade, Fitness+, MusicKit etc. You will be working multi-functionally with various teams across Apple to deliver some really exciting features to our customers. Thinking about web service performance is a constant thing for us, and we are searching for someone like-minded. If you are used to thinking about performance in terms of median, 95th percentile and 99th percentile, then we are looking for you! You would be someone who is not afraid to question assumptions, is a phenomenal teammate under tight deadlines and seeks problems with sophisticated technical solutions. You will also have the opportunity to help develop and enhance the MusicKit
• Apple Music APIs for our developer community and partners: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi

Check out some of the sessions presented by the members of this team at WWDC:

• WWDC22 - Meet Apple Music API and MusicKit - https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10148/
• WWDC21 - Explore the catalog with the Apple Music API - https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10291
• WWDC21 - Cross reference content with the Apple Music API - https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10293

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or similar field
• At least 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of JVM or functional languages like Clojure
• Strong object oriented design and analysis skills coupled with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs or other API technologies
• Experience with NoSQL or document oriented data stores (e.g. Apache Solr / Redis / Memcached / Cassandra / Voldemort / MongoDB etc.) is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and agility to build customer facing features that span multi-functional teams
• Experience writing effective unit and integration tests
• Outstanding debugging, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills

Equal Opportunity

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.