SW Engineer - iCloud Drive

Summary
The iCloud Drive team works at the intersection of software and services! We design and implement the software syncing documents for hundreds of millions of users every day, and provide these documents through applications and system services on iOS and macOS. That code is coordinated deep into the OS. You will help drive features and quality in a fast-paced, high-impact environment! The position entails responsibility for reliably preserving the integrity of our users’ data while protecting their privacy. The challenge in this position is to deliver features while not compromising on quality, performance, and privacy.

Description
iCloud Drive is a complex system with a wide user base of hundreds of millions of users who have learned to depend on it for their work and personal life. It’s far from being in maintenance mode, and we’re pushing an ambitious engineering roadmap with a lot of unresolved problems in areas such as sync, file system integration, data reliability, scalability, responsiveness, telemetry, and future proofing. The ideal candidate has a consistent record of getting up to speed in a large code base and quickly delivering features without regressing an existing user base. They will be independent and driven, learn quickly, have the presence to ask questions and clarifications to the team, and the courage to challenge existing design decisions while keeping everyone on track with the existing feature plans.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience building multi-threaded systems with sophisticated states.
• Capacity to design a system anticipating future evolutions.
• 2 -3 years of experience in C or C++.
• Experience in object-oriented programming.
• Comfortable working in a continually changing and multifaceted environment and driving top issues to resolution.
• Capacity to break down a long-term technical vision into incremental work.
• Capacity to plan, prioritise, drive coworkers to implement, report on progress, and address blockers.
• Appetite to challenge and revisit QA plans and engineering roadmaps continuously to deliver features aggressively and at the highest level of quality. History of shipping software on tight schedules.
• BSc/MSc CS/CE or equivalent experience.
  
  

• Experience with cloud services, operating systems, and storage systems is an advantage
• Experience with Objective C / Swift is an advantage