Senior Build and Release Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple Inc

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On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
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$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
179 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Senior Build and Release Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

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As a Senior Build and Release Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, you will join the CloudKit team to develop and maintain infrastructure for a privacy-focused database platform that synchronizes data across devices. You will build and maintain frameworks, tooling, pipelines, and infrastructure to streamline release processes and improve developer workflows. Your daily responsibilities include managing multi-environment CI/CD pipelines, handling artifact packaging, defining branching strategies, and remediating build failures or infrastructure incidents. To succeed, you must possess expertise in Python, Golang, or Bash, along with experience in Linux/Unix administration, container management, and cloud-native deployment patterns. You will utilize tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, and Kubernetes while troubleshooting distributed systems and Java-based stack traces to ensure the reliability of high-scale, strongly-consistent database services for millions of users.

Skills

CI/CD Python Golang Bash Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Puppet Maven Gradle Make Artifactory AWS GCP gRPC Prometheus Grafana Datadog GitHub Actions

What you'll do

  • Develop and maintain CI/CD automation to streamline build and release processes.
  • Manage multi-environment pipelines for pull request reviews, code validation, and deployments.
  • Manage the full release lifecycle including artifact packaging, publishing, and deployment.
  • Define and enforce release processes, branching strategies, and deployment standards.
  • Improve developer workflows and build system reliability across the CloudKit organization.
  • Triage and remediate build failures, deployment issues, and infrastructure incidents.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.
  • 4+ years of experience building automation frameworks and tools using Python, Golang, or Bash.
  • Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proficiency in source code dependency management, artifact packaging, and release automation.
  • Knowledge of operating systems administration (Linux or Unix), network, and compiler concepts.
  • Experience with containers, cluster management, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
  • Experience troubleshooting distributed systems, including debugging Java-based stack traces.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools, version control systems, and monitoring and observability tooling.

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