Senior Software Engineer (Pricing), Apple Services Engineering

Summary

Posted: Feb 25, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200588593

The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple’s unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep commitment to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’s core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.

Description

As an Engineer on the ASE Pricing team, you’ll support Apple’s provider portal integration with our financial system, provider on boarding, contracts, tax and banking, and payment report integration for all of Apple’s digital content including apps, music, movies, and books on the App Store and iTunes Store. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with multiple exciting engineering teams, business operations, production support, site reliability engineering, quality assurance, and infrastructure teams. The responsibilities include hands on coding, design, requirements elicitation & refinement, technical documentation, production support, unit testing, quality, performance. This is a dynamic role and a phenomenal chance to create a huge impact! We are looking for a multifaceted self starting, upbeat individual who is bold enough to question assumptions and who has strong written and oral skills. We look for amazing and diverse teammates who are able to tackle problems under tight deadline constraints and deliver imaginative solutions. You will go beyond the industry norm and demonstrate creativity in problem solving, ability to think dynamically and outside of standard convention, and adapt quickly to new technical areas. We promote innovation and new technology to further improve Apple’s hardware performance and user experience. The people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod and a multitude of groundbreaking Accessories. We have done the same with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, Apple News, Apple Card and Apple Pay. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. You should join us to help deliver the next amazing Apple product!

Minimum Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Java
• Over 5 years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting highly scalable backend applications
• Experience crafting and implementing RESTful/RPC API and services.
• Significant experience with SQL databases like Oracle and NoSQL like Cassandra.
• Strong production, debugging, and performance tuning experiences and skills.
• Experience working on complex problems and distributed systems where scalability and performance are extremely important (every millisecond counts)
• Ability to adapt to and contribute to the team best practices in coding patterns & standards across multiple code repositories, unit testing and continuous deployment
• Should be independent and able to effectively work with cross functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands on experience with Scala and big data technologies such as Spark and Kafka is a plus.
• Experience with compute/container platforms such as K8s.

Pay & Benefits

• 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 $143,100 and $264,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  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.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.