Senior iCloud Solutions Engineer

About the Role

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish.

The Team You'll Join

Join a team that helps bring applications onto Apple’s iCloud services. We are looking for outstanding engineers who can engage closely with feature teams and bring both architectural and implementation guidance to best take advantage of Apple’s cloud offering. iCloud and CloudKit bring cloud support to billions of users over thousands of applications.

The ideal candidate is organized, a clear communicator, and can demonstrate effective collaboration. They have a strong engineering background with a history of delivering technical solutions and have shipped production applications at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage closely with feature and partner engineering teams onboarding to Apple iCloud services features, and keep a close pulse on where the projects are.
• Provide architectural and implementation guidance for applications at enormous scale.
• Walk through partner code, spot issues, and propose improvements.
• Resolve open issues in a timely manner by identifying and involving the right team members, and publish the plan quickly with clear accountability with respect to project leads, timelines, and the deliverables.
• Provide documentation, product feedback, and tooling guidance to improve the process for future adopters of iCloud services.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing, delivering, and supporting solutions using cloud services.
• Hands-on, recent code experience, preferably in Swift and Objective-C.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Resourceful: excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to independently learn new technologies.
• Be able to drive a project from a simple idea to an implementation.
• Be a leader who possesses both strong programming skills and a creative, user-focused mentality.
• Ability to thrive in a multifunctional team on high-profile, critical projects.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Services
• Architectural Guidance
• Swift
• Objective-C
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Problem Solving
• Scalability
• Technical Leadership
• Cross-functional Collaboration