Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple • Seattle, WA

3d

About The Position

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) builds and provides the systems and infrastructure powering Apple services, including iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps. ASE’s Compute team is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and enhance how teams across Apple deploy workloads on Kubernetes clusters. The role focuses on core Kubernetes components, particularly controllers and infrastructure that improve efficiency, and includes engagement with the upstream community to advance Apple’s requirements. The engineer will help build the platform that delivers applications at scale to end users.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
• Strong experience building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
• High proficiency in Golang.
• Track record of owning technical design end to end, from design documents and architecture tradeoffs through implementation and review.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Kueue, Yunikorn, or related technologies to increase the efficiency of Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality that enable Kubernetes clusters to meet their container-orchestration needs.
• Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of services centered around Kubernetes.
• Evolve system design and architecture to support continued growth while ensuring customer satisfaction and smooth operations.
• Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues.
• Build and enhance the way teams across Apple deploy workloads on Kubernetes clusters.
• Engage with the upstream community to drive Apple’s requirements.

What This Job Offers

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