CloudKit Client Software Engineer
Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino),California,United States
Software and Services
Strong programming skills in Objective-C, C, Swift, or C++ Proven track record of working on rapid development cycles and shipping software on tight schedules
Experience with cryptography concepts, performance work, parallelism, networking, event-based programming, inter-process communication
Passionate about building system-level frameworks and APIs
Excellent written and verbal communication
Description
We work on the client side of the Apple Cloud services, building the foundations for a secure and private cloud from device to device encrypted storage in the cloud to protected computation. Apple's commitment to privacy runs deep and this team is key to extending this commitment to the cloud. This position will involve close collaboration with the CloudKit team, several teams working on server components as well as Apple's cryptography and privacy teams. This job entails both low-level (C/Objective C, libdispatch, POSIX APIs) and system-level skills (synchronization protocols, framework design, IPCs, multi-process performance work, system-wide resource sharing.) Reliability is essential, and we're looking for engineers with a real passion for building complex systems that will seamlessly recover in the event of errors. In this role, you will: - Work with adopters to craft clear APIs - Work with the network and file system stacks to build performant daemons - Work with our server counterparts to design scalable features and protocols - Implement core components of the cryptographic protection of cloud data
Education & Experience
Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
Additional Requirements
Experience in the below is a plus:
- Experience building on Apple Platforms (macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, etc.)
- Experience designing and building developer-facing APIs is a plus
- Interest or familiarity in cryptography and security is a plus
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