Senior Software Engineer - Frameworks for Engineering Experience

The Apple Services Engineering Server (ASE) Frameworks 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 massive scale, meeting Apple's high expectations with high performance 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 outstanding 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, nimble, and multi-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here The ASE Server Frameworks team is responsible for providing both frameworks and reference examples for Java applications and services that various ASE engineering teams build on top of. The team delivers reliable, well-tested, and well-documented frameworks that enable teams to build scalable, production-ready services.Like widely used open-source frameworks, these APIs and frameworks must carefully consider backward compatibility, upgrade paths, transitive dependencies, and dependency management. As the platform evolves and modernizes, the team continuously revises existing frameworks and introduces new ones as appropriate.In this role, you will work with a team of experienced Java engineers and architects to execute against a feature backlog and long-term roadmap. The frameworks developed by this team incorporate ASE standard methodologies and provide foundational support for critical service capabilities such as logging, metrics and statistics collection, distributed tracing, and other core infrastructure concerns. Strong object-oriented programming experience (primarily Java). Expert knowledge of build and dependency management tools such as Maven and Gradle (Bazel a bonus). Excellent understanding of the software development lifecycle, including version control, code reviews, testing practices, and code quality tools. Passionate about creating developer tools and services that improve the quality of life for other engineering teams. Hands-on experience scaling, deploying, and operating distributed services using modern cloud technologies, including containers and Kubernetes. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying services to production environments. Experience troubleshooting deployment and runtime issues in distributed systems.Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and cross-team partners to design and deliver shared platforms and services. Experience with SQL, relational databases, and ORM tooling (Cassandra a bonus). Motivated by operational excellence, maintenance of distributed services, and data-driven decision making. Strong problem-solving abilities and excellent communication skills. B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience Interest in exploring Machine Learning and LLMs for automated code refactoring and developer productivity. Experience with Bazel and Cassandra. M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field.