Job Description

Locations

• Seattle, Washington, United States 98117

Salary

Skills Required

• network protocolsintermediate
• securityintermediate
• client-server architecturesintermediate
• distributed systemsintermediate
• private configurationintermediate
• authenticationintermediate
• authorizationintermediate
• request processingintermediate

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's in CS or related field and/or equivalent experience (experience)
• 4+ years in software engineering (experience, 4 years)
• Experience with designing, implementing and operating large scale distributed systems and networking protocols (experience)
• Experience with writing high scale distributed system in Java (experience)
• Experience with REST APIs or gRPC supporting inference requests (experience)
• Prior work on ML platforms, LLM inference gateways, or shared developer abstractions used by multiple product teams. (experience)
• Designed token, request aware systems and load shedding under quotas ceilings. (experience)
• Resourceful excellent analytical and problem solving skills (experience)
• Collaborative: the ability to thrive in a multi-functional organization through communication and delivery (experience)
• Proven track record designing stateless, horizontally scalable APIs, implementing robust rate‑limiting, backoff/retry, idempotency, and circuit breakers. (experience)
• Self-directed: the ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production (experience)
• Strong software engineering skills and can act as an arbitrator for tough technical debates (experience)
• You care about helping others grow in their careers at Apple (experience)

Preferred Qualifications

• Languages: Java (experience)
• Technology: Netty, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, Prometheus/Grafana, gRPC, REST (experience)
• Knowledge: Networking Protocols, Security, Privacy, Authentication, Inference Request Routing, API Gateways, LLM serving patterns, Rate Limiting (experience)

Responsibilities

• You will work and contribute towards the engineering of Apple Private Cloud Compute Platform. You have a proven background on network protocols, security, understands client-server architectures and distributed systems. You will build the server stacks for private configuration, authentication, authorization and request processing.
• You will design system architectures, specify custom network protocols, and implement high performance code.
• You will develop scalability strategies for applications that support hundreds of millions of users.
• You will work with world-class teams in Cupertino, Seattle, and London who have a real passion for engineering and delivering features that maintain strong privacy guarantees to end users. Because we are a small team with high visibility, the opportunities for you to make an impact are boundless. If you are a person that can seize these opportunities and run with them, you will enjoy working here. You should be deeply motivated, driven, and should feel a personal stake in the services we are responsible for.
• You have the ability to juggle multiple priorities and handle uncertainty.
• You should have excellent communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with the people you work with.
• You should be prepared to deliver high quality results, and your success will be measured by the quality, size and timeliness of your work you're doing.
• We're looking for a dedicated and passionate person to join this amazing team, if you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you!

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