Senior Build and Release Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted
180 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago
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Above market

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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

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As a Senior Build and Release Engineer within the Apple Services Engineering team, you will develop and maintain the infrastructure, tooling, and pipelines that enable engineers to ship software with speed and confidence. You will manage the full release lifecycle, including artifact packaging, deployment standards, and CI/CD automation for multi-environment pipelines. Your daily work involves triaging build failures, managing source code dependencies, and improving developer workflows. The role requires expertise in Python, Golang, or Bash, along with experience in Linux/Unix administration, container orchestration using Kubernetes, and cloud-native patterns. You will utilize tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Maven, Gradle, and Jenkins while troubleshooting distributed systems and Java-based stack traces. This position supports CloudKit, a privacy-focused, strongly-consistent database platform that serves as the foundational storage for various core services and third-party applications.

Skills

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

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, qualification, and deployment.
  • Define and enforce release processes, branching strategies, and deployment standards.
  • Improve developer workflows and build system reliability across the CloudKit organization.
  • Triage, investigate, 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/observability tooling.

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