Software Engineer, Apple Video Services

What happens when the world's most innovative engineers collaborate with the world's most creative storytellers? TV gets reinvented. Meet the reinventors: The Apple Video Services teams created and manage the Apple TV app, which redefined and refined the way people watch their favorite shows, movies and so much more — including everything we love from the major subscription services. Today, these teams also manage one of the most exciting new realms at Apple: They bring viewers the critically acclaimed and award winning Apple Originals in Apple TV+. And they've engineered it so it can be enjoyed not only on Apple devices, but also directly on many new televisions and third-party streaming devices. To deliver Apple-level quality on a global scale, these engineers employ talent and tools to smoothly ingest and process a wide array of data. They work cross-functionally to handle video flow from content ingestion, store services, playback, and virtually everything else it takes to make the experience as seamless as possible. Join them to see what else is there.

Description

The Apple Video Services engineering team is responsible for building the backend services critical to the Apple TV app, which is the central hub to watch various pieces of content (Movies, TV shows, Sporting events) including those from Apple streaming service: Apple TV+ You will be working on a team valuing collaboration, design discussions and constructive code reviews. A successful candidate will be someone willing to learn and happy to understand while challenging the existing. As a member of the team, you will be encouraged to propose, design and implement solutions, while taking ownership of critical components of the stack. You will commit yourself to writing high-quality, well-tested and maintainable code. You will consider exploring new technologies and apply creative solutions to problems.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering or related field 3+ years of industry experience building systems and delivering internet services at scale

Preferred Qualifications

Working in Linux or Unix environments and ability to tune for performance (e.g. disk or memory) Usage of devops and automation tools (e.g. chef, Jenkins) Architecting or storing data in NoSQL, Relational or Big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, MongoDB/CouchDB, Spark) Java and JVM technologies and run-time configurations Systems like containers and message queues (e.g. Kafka, Apache, Jetty) Infrastructure knowledge of networks, CDNs, load balancers Agile development with code tools like svn and git App/software design and API development using Java, JS, HTML5 etc In-depth knowledge of large scale distributed systems