Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Efficiency

Apple • Austin, TX

4h

About The Position

Apple is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to develop solutions to optimize software services, cloud infrastructure and platforms for maximum efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness while ensuring reliability and scalability across diverse workloads. Our team is responsible for developing service and infrastructure architecture solutions for mission-critical services. This is a hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in analyzing and optimizing applications and infrastructure. This position requires practical knowledge of distributed systems, software engineering, operations, Fin-Ops practices and cloud technologies. You will be joining a team of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers working on this leading-edge and constantly changing space. Successful candidates will have strong engineering and communication skills, as well as the ability to build relationships and collaborate across the company. You should have a real passion for quality, technical excellence, and an ability to understand complex systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing, operating and optimizing services and infrastructure in third party cloud and private cloud data center environments
• Ability to analyze, architect and drive complex technical solutions, consisting of multiple technologies, application stack layers (app, data, network, compute)and cloud services
• Experience with analyzing and tuning applications for performance, efficiency and cost optimization
• Experience with monitoring tools, including metrics collection, dashboard creation and log analytics
• Proficient with Java with a deep understanding of JVM and optimization techniques for performance and efficiency
• Excellent communication skills - must be capable of effectively engaging and leading interactions with cross functional technical and business teams and varying levels of management
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Solid understanding of Fin-Ops & infrastructure business operations, including billing, cost management, data center capacity management, finance, licensing
• Expert in writing detailed solution specifications, diagrams, best practices/standards documentation, operating procedures, test plans/test reports, etc.
• Experience with cloud native application architectures, including container orchestration Kubernetes, data technologies and traffic management
• Demonstrated competence with GenAI and various LLMs for use in software development and analytic use cases
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python/Java/Go for automation or integration with APIs
• Strong project management skills, including excellent presentation development
• Influential - ability to influence teams and leaders across the company to achieve your vision
• Passion for evangelizing technologies

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions to optimize software services, cloud infrastructure and platforms for maximum efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness
• Ensure reliability and scalability across diverse workloads
• Develop service and infrastructure architecture solutions for mission-critical services
• Analyze and optimize applications and infrastructure

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior