Build Orchestration Systems Engineer

Summary

Posted: Mar 10, 2025

Role Number:200591570

The SWE Developer Productivity organization builds technologies and tools to help software engineers at Apple to do the best work of their lives. The Build Orchestration team supports that mission by combining modern distributed systems and build system technology to significantly improve software development velocity. We develop and operate a large scale functional build system service used by all of the Software Engineering organization at Apple. We are looking for experienced engineers to join our efforts. You’ll work on extending our current large-scale build and distributed systems to enable complex workflows and metadata management to meet the needs of Apple’s operating system engineers. If you enjoy working on system software, cloud services, or developer tools, then we have many exciting problems to work on! You would join a small, tight-knit group of engineers who build exciting new technology and have fun while doing so. We are applying unique and innovative ideas to old problems and welcome new contributors who are excited by the opportunity to significantly impact the shape and direction of our product. We believe that every engineer brings unique skills and perspective. Far more than any specific experience or skill, we are looking for engineers who want to build great software, learn and develop their skills, and ultimately enable others to develop amazing applications.

Description

You’ll work on solving bringing Apple’s many disparate unmanaged build orchestration instances into a centralized service by leveraging a strong distributed backend. You’ll find ways to combine our unique problem domain with established distributed system techniques to meet challenging customer demands and helping them manage the transition to a service based architecture. You’ll analyze problem requirements, existing solutions, and available systems and make high-level architectural decisions about how to architect the backend, considering both short- and long-term goals. Once solutions are identified, you will work alongside our team to implement them while developing appropriate testing and operational mechanisms. You will be most successful here as a flexible and proactive engineer who thrives in a supportive, respectful, and balanced work environment with interesting and challenging problems to tackle. You have excellent judgement and integrity with the ability to make timely and sound decisions. You know how to drive constructive discussion of design points, learn from your team, and use your experience to advocate and teach others. In your role as an engineer on our team: * Spend a majority of your time programming in Swift. * Collaborate with your teammates through git pull requests, in-person conversations, and Slack. * Engage with other teams to help identify issues and establish long term relationships that include knowledge sharing. * Develop expertise and be given ownership over components critical to Apple’s success. * Provide technical guidance, software architectural review, and mentorship. * Make customer-focused product design decisions with your teammates and drive what really matters. * Prioritize and schedule issues, estimate scope of work, and investigate new issue reports in your areas of responsibility. * Have access to the engineers who create Apple’s full technology, tools, and operating systems stack. Here you’ll find that we: * Have a wide range of experience, from new engineers to Apple veterans. * Provide a relaxed work environment where you can choose when to socialize and when to dig into your projects. * Have an encouraging and growth-focused workplace culture. * Encourage you to use accrued vacation time and maintain a healthy work-life balance! * Offer excellent benefits.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience or interest in traditional and/or distributed build systems such as Make, CMake, Bazel, Buck, etc.
• Experience with high performance strongly typed languages such as Swift, Rust, C++, Scala, or others.
• Experience with cloud orchestration systems, cloud services, and other high-performance system software.
• Experience in systems programming (e.g., operating systems, kernel development, compilers or package managers).

Preferred Qualifications

• We welcome all applicants, but familiarity in one the following areas will help you come up to speed fastest on our project:
• Positive and respectful attitude in a diverse environment.
• Curiosity to understand constraints and bottlenecks in Apple’s software builds and innovative ideas to improve them.
• Excellent collaborative skills, with strong written and verbal communication.
• Strong software architecture and coding abilities.
• 3+ years of industry experience, BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Math, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with SDK or framework development used by other developers.
• Experience with writing performance critical components such as game engines.
• Experience with reliable, scalable, distributed systems

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $143,100 and $264,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.