Software Engineer - Object Storage,
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Apple's Cloud Object Store team develops a major storage platform used by hundreds of internal services at exabyte scale.
The role owns difficult distributed-storage problems and helps shape platform direction rather than executing only against fixed specifications.
The engineer will work on reliability, performance, scalability, multi-tenant isolation, and architectural evolution.
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Role Overview
Apple's Cloud Object Store team develops a major storage platform used by hundreds of internal services at exabyte scale.
The role owns difficult distributed-storage problems and helps shape platform direction rather than executing only against fixed specifications.
The engineer will work on reliability, performance, scalability, multi-tenant isolation, and architectural evolution.
Platform Focus Areas
- Enforce quotas, shape and rate-limit traffic, and contain the impact of tenant behavior on shared infrastructure.
- Design for constant hardware and component failure while preserving durability and availability.
- Find and eliminate bottlenecks in a complex distributed system.
- Retire legacy approaches and simplify fragmented systems while making safe large-scale changes without downtime.
Responsibilities
- Identify, scope, and lead major projects affecting storage-platform reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Drive architecture and design decisions and represent them in cross-team design reviews and roadmap discussions.
- Build consensus across teams and convert ambiguous problems into concrete, sequenced plans.
- Mentor engineers and improve standards for testing, observability, and operational readiness.
- Take ownership of new storage-platform problem areas as priorities shift.
Minimum Qualifications
- In-depth backend software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in networking, filesystems, and security concepts.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of availability, congestion control, observability, and fault tolerance.
- Experience driving complex, ambiguous technical projects end to end and collaborating across teams.
- Experience with at least one of multi-tenant isolation, rate limiting or quota systems, large-scale storage, or distributed-systems performance and reliability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with flow control, overload protection, or admission-control systems.
- Experience with object storage systems or similar backend storage engines.
- Experience building observability or telemetry for complex system behavior.
- Familiarity with distributed state-propagation protocols such as gossip protocols.
- Familiarity with modern data lake architectures and query engines.
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