Compute Runtime Software Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

300d • $143,100 - $264,200

About The Position

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is building the next generation cloud compute services empowering Apple's software developers to build the products our customers love. We're a fast moving, highly skilled team designing, developing and supporting the operation of a virtual machine and container-based compute platform that Apple's server-side developers use to build, test and deploy their products! Our web-scale system hosts Apple's core cloud services and has to stay highly available, secure and 'just work'. That's a tall order, and we're looking to add more talented and passionate engineers who love challenges and providing a great user experience for developers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent related experience.
• At least 5+ years of software design and development experience in infrastructure engineering (compute, storage and network virtualization) with an emphasis on micro-services architectures and containerization.
• Advanced programming language proficiency in C, C++, Swift or Go.
• Hands-on experience with Linux containerization, Linux filesystems, Image distribution, Content storage, Kernel and container security.
• Love open source and collaboration.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Linux system programming.
• Development experience in one or more of: Cloud security, Container / Linux Kernel security and API security.
• Experience troubleshooting and diving into metrics to identify resource contention and bottlenecks.
• Experience designing benchmarks and load tests to characterize performance and establish scalability models.
• Development experience with container orchestration systems such as Docker, Kubernetes or Mesos.
• Development experience in combination of virtualization and container technologies to build a cloud native hypervisor (KubeVirt, Kata, Firecracker, macOS Virtualization Framework).
• Systems programming experience on Darwin with Swift.
• Programming Linux system virtualization based on Libvirt, QEMU, KVM.
• Understanding of various shared networked storage solutions (iSCSI, NFS, cluster file systems).

Responsibilities

• Work on reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance limits of web-services.
• Design major features and resolve highly complex issues creatively and effectively.
• Take ownership of major features and technologies to demonstrate a significant impact within the organization.
• Drive ideas from inception to implementation.
• Mentor engineers at all levels.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition.
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
• Relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree