About the position
Our team is on a mission to build innovative infrastructure and tools to help other engineers be more productive and make software easier to create, build and distribute. We believe that streamlining software engineering is an important part of unlocking developer creativity and innovation, and we love it when Apple customers see that in the products we ship. We are looking for distributed systems engineers to join our efforts. You'll be developing novel distributed architectures, products and services to accelerate software build, test and deployment. If you enjoy working on distributed systems, then we have many exciting problems for you to work on! We believe that every engineer brings unique skills and perspectives. Far more than any specific experience or skill, we are looking for engineers who want to build great reliable software and services, learn and develop their skills, and ultimately enable others to develop amazing applications. You would join a small, tight-knit group of engineers who build exciting new technology, and have fun while doing so.
Responsibilities
- Work on distributed services engineering, tooling, and contributing to operational standards used across the organization.
- Collaborate with your teammates to help refine problem requirements and work with teams to implement long-lasting solutions.
- Engage with other teams to help identify issues and establish long-term relationships that include knowledge sharing.
- Provide valuable feedback to engineering teams backed by application metrics and log data.
- Drive areas of service scalability (resiliency, redundancy, performance) by collaborating in planning meetings.
- Develop expertise and be given ownership over components critical to Apple's success.
- Contribute to engineering a high-performance system through algorithm design, optimization, and performance testing.
- Design new ways to scale Apple's distributed services to ever-increasing problem sizes.
- Analyze and improve the operability of our services and tools.
Requirements
- Experience with building and operating distributed storage and/or distributed compute systems.
- Experience with high-performance, strongly typed languages such as Swift, Rust, C++, Scala, or others.
- Strong interest in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud services.
- Ability to efficiently develop, debug, and support new technologies in a changing environment.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with some large infrastructure systems like Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with application and service monitoring tools and techniques.
- Experience with incident management and response.
- Familiarity with virtualization technology.
- Understanding of distributed systems' space concerns and algorithms.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent, related experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
- Retirement benefits.
- A range of discounted products and free services.
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.
- Opportunity to participate in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs.
- Discretionary restricted stock unit awards.
- Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount through Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
- Relocation assistance.
