Senior Software Engineer, Energy Services

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something. Join Apple and help us leave the world better than we found it. One way we are making the world better is our Apple 2030 initiative. Apple 2030 commits Apple to become carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain and product life cycle by 2030, including the electricity used to power Apple devices.

Description

We are looking for an enthusiastic software engineer to help us combat climate change and meet our company goals. Join us to help investigate emerging technologies and develop next-generation products. The ideal candidate thrives on ambiguity and is passionate about creating new products with meaningful and disruptive impact to the world.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or 3+ years of equivalent industry experience
Extensive experience architecting, building, and maintaining mission-critical distributed systems at large scales.
Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and trade-offs in consistency, latency, and throughput.
A commitment to engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and the curiosity to evaluate and advocate for new technologies and patterns.
An ability to communicate thoughtfully and clearly, both verbally and in writing, to drive consensus on complex technical concepts with diverse audiences, including global teams and external partners.
A track record of building and sustaining healthy long-term relationships and technical influence within your team and beyond its boundaries.
The tenacity and perseverance to lead complex projects all the way from conception to production.
Experience using generative AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle to produce high-quality software.
Able to work with cross-functional partners to define product objectives
Passion for people, code, and improving our future

Preferred Qualifications

Deep hands-on software development expertise with Java or Kotlin and Spring.
Proven development and operational experience with high-volume REST and/or gRPC services (either server-to-server or mobile client facing).
Strong experience designing for containerization and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
Significant time spent architecting, building, and operating cloud-native (e.g. AWS) applications with resilience, failover, and self-healing as core features.
Expertise in designing robust CI/CD pipelines and defining infrastructure as code.
Extensive experience with observability strategies and tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
Deep understanding of modern networking and experience using traffic tools for tracing and debugging.
A fundamental appreciation for, and understanding of security, privacy, and cryptography (e.g. PKI, certificate management, JWT).
Hands-on experience optimizing SQL/NoSQL databases for scale (e.g. Aurora, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Oracle).
Domain knowledge of the utility industry, electrical grid or renewable energy.