Senior Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

6h

About The Position

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience
that has revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people
and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could
do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The
Apple Services Engineering(ASE) team builds and provides systems and
infrastructure that power Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and
Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the
products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay
highly available, and "just work.” If you love designing, engineering and
running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then
this is the place for you! Apple Service Engineering (ASE)’s Compute team is
seeking highly motivated individual with strong technical and communication
skills to join us in on our quest to build and enhance massive clusters hosting
Virtual Machines, Containers and associated infrastructure that can scale to
meet the demands of Apple’s Services offerings. You will join a team of
world-class engineers working on core components that build a cloud platform,
customize it to help fit Apple’s diverse needs. Ultimately, you will help build
the platform that delivers our applications at scale to our end users.

DESCRIPTION

Enjoy working on reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance
limits of infrastructure services. Be curious about how systems work and, more
importantly, how they fail. In this role you will be responsible for developing,
debugging and maintaining distributed compute systems for cloud platforms. You
will Design, implement and optimize virtualized compute offerings on a wide
variety of hardware types Write and review code, generate and review design
documentation - Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to
production clusters Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and
optimize for critical workloads Tackle and resolve complex issues across
accelerator, virtualization, and networking layers, ensuring robust performance,
stability, and security Hold yourself and others to a high quality standard
expected of Apple products

Requirements

• At least 5+ years with Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in cloud platforms, specifically building large scale distributed systems
• Proven distributed systems and operating systems knowledge and experience applying it to build stable, performant, and secure execution environments
• Highly proficient in Golang and/or Java
• Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of advanced virtualization concepts, including nested virtualization, QEMU, VM live migration, and NUMA optimization
• Experience working on cloud storage solutions is a plus.
• Understanding of various storage solutions (iSCSI, NFS, cluster file systems)
• Experience in designing and developing highly scalable web API-based request processing systems (Spring, Kafka)

Responsibilities

• developing, debugging and maintaining distributed compute systems for cloud platforms
• Design, implement and optimize virtualized compute offerings on a wide variety of hardware types
• Write and review code, generate and review design documentation
• Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and optimize for critical workloads
• Tackle and resolve complex issues across accelerator, virtualization, and networking layers, ensuring robust performance, stability, and security

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees