Systems Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Category: Software Engineering

Description

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Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what we can accomplish together. We're looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team, and if you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you!

The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). Apple’s uniquely flawless hardware, software and services integration means that you will get to work with world-class engineers from a variety of subject areas to design and deliver products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work.” If you love crafting, engineering, and running systems that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!

Apple Service Engineering (ASE)’s Compute team is seeking an expert software engineer to build and improve internal cloud infrastructure offerings. You will be responsible for core components of a groundbreaking high performance batch compute platform, integrating the latest cloud hardware technologies with Apple’s own hardware and software. In this role, you will collaborate with teams across Apple to deliver forward-looking high-performance virtualized infrastructure. You will partner with internal application teams to understand their requirements, co-design operating system features and datacenter infrastructure to meet your needs and look ahead at new technologies to incorporate them into our services.

Description

In this role you will be responsible for developing, debugging and maintaining a software to maintain and develop an in-house virtualized infrastructure platform. You will:

-  Design, implement, and optimize virtualized compute offerings on a wide variety of hardware types

-  Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and highly available services that support infrastructure management

-  Enjoy working on reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance limits of infrastructure services. Be curious about how systems work and, more meaningfully, how they fail

-  Monitor on-server system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions to enhance efficiency of workloads in a virtualized computing environment

-  Conduct root cause analysis for on-server system failures and implement preventive measures

-  Collaborate with multi-functional teams across Apple to understand, integrate, and optimize critical workloads into our platform

-  Participate in software release qualifications, and large-scale software and hardware upgrades to production clusters

-  Participate in a business-hours rotation where engineers respond to platform issues for same-day resolution

Minimum Qualifications

Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, and distributed systems concepts

Familiarity with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenance, especially in the context of infrastructure management

Fluency in Golang, Python, or similar languages in a systems or distributed systems context

Familiarity with node management systems like Salt Stack, Ansible, Puppet or similar solutions

Quick at learning and contributing to new code bases

Customer-focused thinking and strong problem solving with attention to detail

Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of operating system fundamentals

BS with 2+ years of experience in system software development or MS in Computer Science

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience of working with diverse hardware, operating systems, container runtimes (lxc, docker, container) and virtualization stacks (Qama, KVM, LeVert on x86, ARM)

Prior working experience and deep understanding of node management agents (e.g., kebele), and node orchestration solutions to manage large scale infrastructures

Strong proficiency in Linux/Unix internals, administration, and troubleshooting

Operational knowledge of Kubernetes clusters

Strong knowledge of networking protocols and security standard methodologies

Experience with measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance

Ability to effectively communicate within a team and with project collaborators

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $171,600 and $302,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

Company

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Apple

Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s six software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s more than 150,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth and to leaving the world better than we found it.