Software Engineer: DevOps/Automation Engineer

Summary

Posted: Feb 17, 2025

Role Number:200576577

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Come join our small team of highly focused engineers who play a key role in the success of the silicon validation team. We’re looking for people who enjoy designing solutions to solve problems rather than focusing on completing tasks as fast as possible. You will perform work associated with developing and supporting release tooling and infrastructure that serves hundreds of Apple engineers. Your success here has a direct impact on products used by billions of users!

Description

– Your strong troubleshooting ability will be used daily. You will take steps to isolate issues and determine root cause(s) through investigative analysis, communicate your findings to the team, and take action to correct the root cause of the issues – You will draw upon your experience to ask “what are we trying to accomplish?” instead of “how would you like this implemented?” – You will work with various groups within the department to get to the root of the problem which is driving a request – You will value innovative solutions, rather than ones which merely satisfy a list of requirements – You are an independent problem-solver who is self-motivated to achieve group objectives while feeling comfortable asking other for assistance

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 10 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a CI/CD or SRE role
• Experience deploying, configuring, and operating Jenkins at scale
• Strong object-oriented development skills in Python and Java (or another JVM-based language)
• Experience with a configuration management system (Salt/Ansible/Puppet/Chef, Salt is a big plus)
• Jenkins Scripted Pipeline and Shared Library development
• Experience deploying and operating Gerrit
• Experience managing VMware infrastructure (ESXi/vSphere)
• Experience with artifact lifecycle management
• Experience working with log aggregation tools (Splunk, ELK stack, etc)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (such as Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, etc)

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 $175,800 and $312,200, 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.