Senior Software Engineer — Service Observability & Detection
Core
Design and build telemetry foundations, SLO frameworks, and detection systems to provide real-time visibility into the health of Apple Pay and Wallet services for hundreds of millions of users.
Role type
Senior IC platform software engineer (observability & reliability)
Builds
Scalable telemetry pipelines, SLO frameworks, intelligent alerting systems, and observability-as-code infrastructure for the Wallet, Payments, and Commerce organization.
Domain
Fintech / Payments / High-scale distributed systems
Required skills
OpenTelemetry (SDK, Collector, processors), SLO/SLI design, distributed systems architecture, alerting architecture, Kotlin/Java/Go/Python, observability platforms (Datadog/Grafana/Prometheus/Splunk), microservices, high-cardinality metric management, cross-service trace stitching
Preferred skills
Payment systems domain experience, AI/ML for anomaly detection, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi), service catalog ownership, incident management workflows