Software Development Engineer **Cupertino, California, United States** **Software and Services** **Summary** Posted: **Apr 17, 2025** Weekly Hours: **40** Role Number: **200599435** Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. **Description** APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Design, develop, and test secure and scalable back-end systems, including REST Services and big data pipelines that deliver key business data to ad servers and event processing teams. Utilize distributed systems such as Cassandra, Solr, Spark, Kafka and Hadoop to achieve the high scale requested out of the system. Utilize relational database experience in Oracle, PostgresSQL, MySQL and demonstrated knowledge of structured query language (SQL) and data modeling to achieve data persistence. Design and implement high throughput, low latency representational state transfer (RESTful) application programming interfaces (APIs) to expose business rules in a system consumable fashion by internal and external consumers of the data. Develop server-side Java programming and multithreaded applications to build performant REST services and big data jobs that are easy to manage and scale. Architect, develop and deploy large scale, distributed and mission critical services. Build and maintain interfaces used by both internal systems and thousands of developers and advertisers world-wide to achieve the business objectives. Work on high-performing, elegant systems from the ground up, in close partnerships with various internal teams to enable smooth collaboration across internal teams. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,800 - $264,200/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program. **Minimum Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, or related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or related occupation. + 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required: + Utilizing Java to convert business logic into executable code. + Utilizing REST to expose business logic via a REST API interface understanding the various HTTP concepts and how they apply to REST. + Utilizing SQL and database technologies like Oracle, PostgresSQL, MySQL to create data models and model business roles as integrity constraints in the database. Also, use advanced technique like indexing to achieve required performance. + Utilizing Kafka to build event driven and decoupled systems. Utilize kafka knowledge in writing producers and consumers using Kafka client libraries to build these event driven systems. + Utilizing Cassandra to fulfil high-throughput use-cases that can adhere to key-value data model and query pattern. + Working on distributed computing to build resilient, scalable system and avoid single-points-of-failure. + Utilizing Spring to build components with design patterns like dependency injection and inversion of control to build easy to test and maintain systems. **Preferred Qualifications** + N/A 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) . 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) . Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation. Apple participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law.Learn more about the E-Verify program (https://www.apple.com/jobs/pdf/EverifyPosterEnglish.pdf) . Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more . Apple is a drug-free workplace. 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