Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, Compute Platform

Apple • Cupertino, CA

9h

About The Position

Our team is on a mission to build innovative infrastructure and tools to help other engineers be more productive and make software easier to create, build, and distribute. We believe that streamlining software engineering is an important part of unlocking developer creativity and innovation, and we love it when Apple customers see that in the products we ship. We are looking for distributed systems engineers to join our efforts. Our team works on evolving a set of innovative distributed backend services and tools to deliver a high volume of functional, deterministic computations for various workloads. We believe that every engineer brings unique skills and perspectives. Far more than any specific experience or skill, we are looking for engineers who want to build great reliable software and services, learn and develop their skills, and ultimately enable others to develop amazing applications. You would join a small, tight-knit group of engineers who build exciting new technology, and have fun while doing so.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of distributed software system fundamentals
• Experience with high-performance, strongly typed languages such as: Swift, Rust, C++, Scala
• Familiarity with caching, compilers, networking, and operating systems
• Ability to efficiently develop, debug, and support new technologies in a changing environment
• Strong interest in distributed systems, reliability, and performance

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with some large infrastructure systems like Kubernetes
• Familiarity with CI/CD solutions like Jenkins
• Familiarity with application and service monitoring tools and techniques
• Experience with incident management and response

Responsibilities

• Developing novel distributed architectures, products and services to accelerate software build, test, and deployment.
• Combining unique problem domain with established distributed system techniques to achieve high performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Analyzing problem requirements, existing solutions, and available systems.
• Making high-level architectural decisions about how to design the backend, considering both medium and long-term goals.
• Implementing designs alongside the team.
• Developing appropriate testing and operational mechanisms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed