Senior Software Engineer, Energy Services

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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.","responsibilities":"As part of the Energy Services Engineering team you will be responsible for helping to build robust, highly scalable services that support millions of users.

You'll also have the opportunity to be involved with early development investigations, prototypes, and 3rd party integrations.

You'll work with passionate problem solvers, designing and building impactful, best-in-class services for one of Apple's most innovative spaces.

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.

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

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 $175,000 and $263,300, 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.