Staff Software Engineer, ASE Storage team

Role Number: 200683416Team: Software and ServicesLocation: CupertinoPosted: 2026-09-14SummaryApple Services Engineering (ASE) designs, builds, and operates the cloud infrastructure, server systems, and platform technologies that power many of Apple's most beloved experiences.Within ASE, the Storage Platforms organization develops the systems that store, protect, and serve Apple's data at massive scale, with a mission to deliver storage that is durable, secure, highly available, and operated with excellence. Engineers on this team will have the rare opportunity to work on storage device-optimized low-level storage, large-scale distributed systems, and high-performance IO stacks operating at mission-critical levels of availability and durability.Apple Object Storage is a massive scale storage system that provides the foundation for storing unstructured object data across Apple. The Apple Key-Value Store provides the metadata storage to make that happen, as well as supports other distributed Key-Value workloads within Apple Cloud platform.We are looking for a passionate lead engineer/architect with experience in developing large-scale services and infrastructure to take a central role in designing and building our next version. Join our friendly, collaborative, highly-motivated team!DescriptionWe are looking for collaborative, curious, and pragmatic Software Engineers to be part of this innovative team. In this role, you will:Directly impact the direction for the backend of many critical Apple internet services for years to come.Designing, building and maintaining the software and services to improve the feature set, availability, scalability and security of Apple's internal cloud infrastructure.Ability to make tradeoffs on availability and performance while prioritizing durability are crucial.Design and implement features for a distributed key-value store like automatic repairs, shard splits and rebalances.Massively scalable, currently spread across 2000+ hosts and handles 5M+ transactions per second to support critical infrastructural systems and frameworks.We are building a strongly consistent, distributed, ordered key-value database using custom transaction log on Raft/ZAB using RocksDB as storage engine.Collaborate with internal teams, including customer teams and the storage reliability engineering team.Focused on building testable, maintainable code and scalable processes across the team.Minimum Qualifications10 years of professional software development experience on software or infrastructure systems5 years of experience building and operating distributed systemsStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.Experience coding in one or more of these programming languages: Rust, C++, Java or C#Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.Preferred QualificationsMS or PhD in Computer ScienceProven track record for building, launching and operating large-scale production internet servicesKnowledge of Java, non-blocking and thread safe programmingKnowledge of distributed databases, distributed storage, or similar mass-scale Distributed SystemsFamiliarity with RocksDBPay & BenefitsAt 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 $216,200 and $324,800, 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 BenefitsNote: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.EEO StatementApple 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 applicantAccessibilityAt Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong.Learn about accessibility in Apple’s workplaceLearn about reasonable accommodations for job applicantsApplication DeadlineApple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.