This role is part of the CAD Infrastructure Development group, focusing on architecting and building distributed systems that support large-scale product demands. The position requires a blend of big-picture thinking and hands-on technical execution to ensure system resilience and scalability. You will drive architectural decisions and best practices while collaborating with various product and engineering teams. The goal is to enhance system reliability and improve development velocity through innovative architectures.

• Minimum requirement of BS + 10 years of relevant industry experience, with demonstrated ownership of architecture or systems design.
• Experience architecting and driving development of complex distributed systems and platform software.
• Experience in software architecture and systems design, including microservices decomposition and service contracts.
• Experience in backend or systems-level languages, such as Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience in using container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes.
• Experience designing event-driven architectures and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Experience with message queues and streaming platforms, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, or Pulsar.
• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD methodologies, platforms, and tools, such as ArgoCD, Flux, or Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, fault tolerance, and partitioning strategies.
• Strong API design abilities across REST, gRPC, and event-driven interfaces.
• Familiar with infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Familiar with GitOps workflows and progressive delivery practices.
• Knowledgeable in observability and reliability engineering, including SLOs, distributed tracing, and circuit breakers.

• Architect and build distributed systems that power products at scale.
• Drive architectural decisions and best practices for distributed systems development.
• Collaborate with multiple product and engineering teams to design, evaluate, and implement scalable microservices architectures.
• Design new architectures and define patterns that enable other engineers to build better products, faster.
• Mentor engineers and build consensus across teams on cross-cutting technical decisions.

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.