Storage Systems Engineer, Software Delivery & Technologies

Apple • Cupertino, CA

3d

About The Position

The Storage Systems Engineer, within Apple’s Software Delivery & Technologies (SD&T) organization, develops storage systems, puts storage services into production, and applies reliability engineering to storage infrastructure used by software engineers to develop Apple software worldwide.

As part of the SD&T Enterprise team, the role helps build and manage services relied upon by Apple R&D. The storage platforms support Apple source code management and collaboration tools. The engineer drives the design, development, and debugging of reliability, performance, and security engineering for on-premise storage infrastructure; instruments observability of storage and enterprise services; leads service incidents through resolution; and reports SLI/SLO metrics across the organization.

Requirements

• Experience designing distributed storage systems for reliability, scalability, security, and performant high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR).
• Experience implementing and troubleshooting distributed systems across storage, networking, and security.
• Incident management experience managing customer-facing storage systems in a 24/7 environment.
• Excellent judgment and integrity, with the ability to make timely, data-driven decisions.
• Capacity to adapt to changing requirements and anticipate stakeholder needs.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• Programming experience in Python, Swift, Go, or a similar language.

Nice To Haves

• Regular use of agentic AI workflows for incident triage and root cause analysis.
• Use of agentic AI coding tools for engineering development and test validation.
• Experience as a storage administrator, such as with NFS filesystems or S3 object storage.
• Experience with container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, or similar.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and debug reliability, performance, and security engineering for on-premise storage infrastructure.
• Develop storage systems and place storage services into production.
• Apply reliability engineering design to storage infrastructure.
• Instrument observability of storage and enterprise services.
• Lead service incidents to resolution.
• Report SLI/SLO metrics for visibility across the organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time