Software Development Engineer, OpenSearch / Search

As a member of the OpenSearch team at Apple, your role will involve developing and managing a highly available, cloud-based search service. You will be responsible for contributing to various OpenSearch components such as query parsing, indexing, cluster management, security, scalability, and new feature development. Your innovative and detail-oriented contributions will directly impact the performance, availability, and resilience of services supporting a variety of applications and services at Apple. **Key Responsibilities:** - Understand distributed computing concepts including sharding, data replication, and fault tolerance. - Demonstrate familiarity with operating system concepts like process management and network I/O. - Utilize comprehensive knowledge of indexing, searching, and analytics concepts, including text analysis, relevancy tuning, and multi-modal search. - Apply advanced software engineering skills with expertise in the Java ecosystem, object-oriented design principles, and building maintainable, scalable applications. - Gain hands-on experience with production deployment workflows, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, version control systems, and distributed systems observability. - Implement advanced topics such as autoscaling, request tracing, and performance tuning in high-throughput systems. - Possess a strong understanding of testing methodologies and experience with debugging and profiling tools. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Solid knowledge of Linux/Unix Internals, Systems/Application Design & Architecture. - Experience with public clouds like GCP & AWS is highly desirable. - Expertise in identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing optimization strategies. - Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with attention to detail. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven collaboration abilities. **Minimum Qualifications:** - 5+ years of relevant experience in the IT industry, specifically in search engines, distributed systems, and data analytics. - High proficiency in languages such as Java, Kotlin, and Go. - Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and indexing techniques specific to search engines. - In-depth knowledge of search engine internals, ideally with OpenSearch or similar platforms such as Elasticsearch/Solr. - Experience in contributing to or maintaining Open-Source software projects. Join the Data Services OpenSearch team at Apple and be a part of developing scalable search, monitoring, and analytics solutions that impact the experiences of millions of users across Apple's critical services.,