Senior Software Engineer - Compute

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $171,600–$302,200 / yr
Posted: 54 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 Software Engineer - Compute

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Compute team, you will design and implement innovative solutions for VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning in a highly distributed environment. Your day-to-day responsibilities include operating and monitoring compute environments, automating deployment processes, and leveraging AI to enhance operational workflows and infrastructure tooling. You will collaborate with other SRE teams, participate in on-call rotations, and support partner engineering groups. The role requires expertise in OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies, Kubernetes, and proficiency in Go or Python. Ideal candidates have a background in building and scaling cloud infrastructure at scale, experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Chef, Ansible, or Terraform, and the ability to mentor others while working on planet-scale systems.

Skills

Kubernetes OpenStack Go Python Terraform Chef Ansible Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform PostgreSQL MySQL Redis MongoDB Git Jenkins

What you'll do

Design and implement VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning solutions in distributed environments.
Operate and monitor production and non-production compute environments to ensure high availability.
Automate deployment and orchestration of compute infrastructure to reduce operational load.
Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues efficiently.
Build AI tools for triaging, workflow automation, and enhancing infrastructure operations.

What we're looking for

7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) focusing on infrastructure
Proven track record in automating processes and reducing operational load through software
Extensive experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems
Proficiency with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies, and Kubernetes
Expertise in Go or Python programming languages
Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple engineering teams and mentor others
Experience working with highly distributed Unix systems

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