Software Engineer - Developer Productivity Engineering

Apple•Seattle, WA

About The Position

The Apple Cloud Engineering team is seeking a software engineer to build and integrate software that orchestrates workloads across highly performant and energy-efficient systems for next-generation data centers. The role focuses on hardware acceleration for machine-learning and high-performance-computing workloads, and on building and maintaining system software—including runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons—for future data centers. The engineer will collaborate across Apple with architecture, platform-design, and software teams to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform, helping establish the foundation of Apple’s future cloud architecture. The position involves building and maintaining system infrastructure, developing secure and privacy-preserving software releases using container technologies, and ensuring quality through unit, integration, and performance testing.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience in software development, building and managing cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Strong software design, programming, and problem-solving skills.
Strong engineering skills in Pkl or a similar configuration language, including design, testing, debugging, code review, and long-term maintainability.
Knowledge of operating-system architecture and low-level system components.
Experience with cloud orchestration engines such as Kubernetes or Nomad.
A track record of building, shipping, and operating production cloud services or infrastructure.
Experience with Linux, including systemd, cgroups, containers, socket IPC, and creating, running, and debugging user-space processes using tools such as eBPF.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to collaborate with others and work cross-functionally.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Swift, Objective-C, and Apple development tools.
Familiarity with OCI image and runtime specifications, runc, Linux namespaces, cgroups, and overlay filesystems.

Responsibilities

Build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across performant, energy-efficient systems.
Build and maintain system software, including runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons.
Adapt, tailor, and scale software for a novel compute platform in collaboration with teams across Apple.
Build and maintain infrastructure for next-generation data centers.
Design and operate secure, privacy-preserving software releases using Docker-like containers, OCI images, runc, and Linux namespaces.
Build tools to manage container lifecycles across release environments.
Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and design documents.
Improve automation and CI/CD across the deployment pipeline.
Debug and resolve production issues in distributed cloud systems.
Ensure software quality and agility through unit, integration, and performance tests.
Develop new features, maintain existing code, and fix bugs.