Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Services Engineering

Shanghai Until 9/26/2026 5+ years exp First posted July 28, 2026 Last posted July 28, 2026
Job description

At Apple, great ideas don’t just take shape — they evolve into world-class products and transformative experiences at remarkable speed. Bring your passion, dedication, and technical curiosity to our team, and together we will redefine what’s possible in cloud services innovation.

Description

Our team builds end-to-end software solutions, APIs and core services that power critical workflows for countless internal and external customers across Apple’s ecosystem. We are seeking a versatile engineer with deep expertise in software development, system architecture and cutting-edge cloud technologies to drive impactful engineering outcomes.

If you thrive on designing elegant, resilient solutions to intricate technical challenges, and are driven to build highly distributed, massively scalable cloud infrastructure, this role is for you!

Minimum Qualifications

Programming and API Expertise: Mastery of one or more programming languages (Python, Go or Java), with hands-on experience implementing industry standard design patterns and developing RESTful/gRPC APIs.
Cloud Infrastructure Experience: Proven track record working with one or more major public cloud platforms and underlying infrastructure.
Cloud Native Proficiency: Familiarity with modern cloud native application development practices, including Kubernetes orchestration and end-to-end CI/CD pipeline implementation, crossplane framework.
Core Protocol Knowledge: Solid understanding of foundational network and security protocols, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS and X509 certificate frameworks.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Skills: Proficiency in at least one IaC solution, such as Terraform, Pulumi.
Collaboration and Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build, nurture and sustain cross-functional partnerships with peer teams and stakeholders.
Language Fluency: Professional fluency in both Chinese and English, with the ability to collaborate seamlessly in global and regional workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated experience leading architectural and detailed design efforts, with a focus on embedding security, high availability, fault tolerance and operational resiliency into core system design.
Hands-on experience operating, optimizing and scaling cloud infrastructure and production-grade services on public cloud platforms, with the ability to deeply understand customer business needs and propose targeted, feasible technical solutions.
Practical exposure to cloud networking technologies, design patterns and troubleshooting for distributed cloud environments.
Proven expertise in application and service reliability engineering, including incident response, performance tuning and uptime optimization.

About this role

Summary

Designs and develops scalable cloud infrastructure, APIs, and core services for Apple ecosystem.

Job title

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Services Engineering

Experience level

senior level

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Shanghai, on-site with possible remote collaboration

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonGoJavaRESTful APIsgRPCcloud platformsKubernetesCI/CDCrossplaneTerraformPulumiDNSHTTP/HTTPSX509network protocolssecurity protocols

Preferred skills

security in system designhigh availabilityfault tolerancecloud infrastructure scalingapplication reliability engineering

Specializations

cloud computingsystem architecturecloud nativeAPI developmentdistributed systems
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Shanghai, China

On-site City