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Lead Infrastructure Software Engineer
AppleLondon, England, United Kingdom
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£54,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
Our predicted code SOC 2134 (71% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,700, and Apple is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the published rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
About the role
Summary
We build and support new and existing critical infrastructural systems and frameworks that provide services like structured and unstructured storage, caching, queueing, searching, and much more at hyperscale. These form the platform upon which many iCloud and other backend systems at Apple are built. The team is responsible for the next-generation platform that will power Apple's infrastructural services. These services operate at extremely large scale and store exabytes of data. The platform supports a variety of services based on open-source software, such as Kubernetes, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kafka, Redis, etc., alongside internally developed services.
Description
We are looking for a creative, versatile, and passionate engineer to join this group. You will have significant individual responsibility and influence over the direction the core platform takes for years to come. You will create API-driven services with extraordinary precision, delightful features, and resilient designs that "just work." Your engineering will impact hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features.
The successful candidate must have experience in software development, distributed systems, and technical leadership. They must have experience technically leading projects or small teams to deliver on time in fast-changing environments, including working across multiple timezones to deliver and launch production-impacting projects.
Minimum Qualifications
We build and support new and existing critical infrastructural systems and frameworks that provide services like structured and unstructured storage, caching, queueing, searching, and much more at hyperscale. These form the platform upon which many iCloud and other backend systems at Apple are built. The team is responsible for the next-generation platform that will power Apple's infrastructural services. These services operate at extremely large scale and store exabytes of data. The platform supports a variety of services based on open-source software, such as Kubernetes, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kafka, Redis, etc., alongside internally developed services.
Description
We are looking for a creative, versatile, and passionate engineer to join this group. You will have significant individual responsibility and influence over the direction the core platform takes for years to come. You will create API-driven services with extraordinary precision, delightful features, and resilient designs that "just work." Your engineering will impact hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features.
The successful candidate must have experience in software development, distributed systems, and technical leadership. They must have experience technically leading projects or small teams to deliver on time in fast-changing environments, including working across multiple timezones to deliver and launch production-impacting projects.
Minimum Qualifications
- Proven experience as a backend internet services software engineer in a high-level language such as Golang (preferred), C++, Java, or Python.
- Successful track-record and proven experience of leading projects from design to launch, using business needs to determine velocity and scope.
- Deep understanding of multi-threading concepts and design of highly concurrent and distributed applications.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident review processes for production services.
- Experience with development within the Kubernetes ecosystem, including operator framework and controllers.
- Exposure to structured or unstructured storage or caching layers such as Cassandra, Redis, or Memcache.
- Experience with large-scale server orchestration (OpenStack Ironic, Metal3, MAAS, xCat, Netbox, Tinkerbell, Cloudstack).
- Experience with UI frameworks such as React, Angular or JQuery
- Exposure to cloud services (AWS S3/EC2/CloudFront/Steps or equivalent).
- Exposure to server bootstrap and associated security (PXE, BIOS, TPM, secure boot, trusted computing)
- Exposure to configuration management and fleet orchestration via Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar.
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Role Number: 200674327-2114
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Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 2134 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~343k in sampleP25 £42kP75 £76k
£33kmedian £57kgoing rate £55k£103k
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