Software Engineer, OS and System Services

Summary

Posted: Jan 23, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200579722

The Apple Cloud Engineering team is looking for an outstanding software engineer to build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across highly performant and energy efficient systems that will power the next generation of data centers. In this highly collaborative role, you will be at the center of multiple efforts to apply hardware acceleration for machine learning and high performance computing workloads. You will be part of a team that builds and maintains system software such as kernel drivers, runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons that will power the next generations of data centers. You will partner with teams across Apple to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform and will help to build the foundation of our future cloud architecture. We are looking for someone with shown mastery building and leading scalable, resilient systems. You should have a strong mix of education and practical experience with a real passion for diving head first into complicated problems

Description

You will work multi-functionally with architecture, platform design, SOC architects, and software teams to develop and integrate outstanding hardware, software and services. You will be responsible for building and maintaining system infrastructure that powers next generation of data centers. You will ensure high quality and agility with unit tests, integration tests and performance tests. You will occasionally go on-call to support the high quality software you deploy. YOU ARE THE RIGHT MATCH IF: You possess strong skills in software design and programming. You are passionate about developing new features, maintaining existing code, fixing bugs. You have strong problem-solving skills. You are skilled at the art of communicating and enjoy it

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficiency in one of C/C++, Obj-C
• Solid operating system fundamentals
• Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software
• Excellent communication skills
• Creative, collaborative, and product-focused

Preferred Qualifications

• Good grasp of system integration and management (configuration management, software deployment, OTA)
• Experience with cloud orchestration engines such as Kubernetes, Nomad, Apache Mesos, or similar
• Good understanding of microservice topologies and deployment patterns in the cloud and/or edge
• Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities. Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants.

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 $135,400 and $250,600, 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.