Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Build Systems

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Diego, CA
Salary: $171,600–$302,200 / yr
Posted: 56 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 - Distributed Build Systems

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As a Senior Software Engineer on Apple’s Software Engineering Developer Productivity team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the company's distributed build platform, which supports tens of thousands of engineers and billions of customers. Your daily responsibilities include optimizing distributed scheduling, ensuring build correctness, developing caching strategies, and improving build performance at scale. You will lead high-impact projects, set technical direction, make design trade-offs, and use data to measure impact and drive reliability improvements. Additionally, you will mentor less-experienced engineers, establish best practices, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in developer tooling or backend systems, with expertise in distributed systems, concurrency, performance optimization, and build systems like Swift Build or Bazel. You must excel at communicating technical trade-offs across organizational boundaries and have a strong track record of delivering complex projects.

Skills

Distributed Systems Caching Scheduling Concurrency Systems Programming Performance Optimization Build Systems Swift Build Bazel Buck Observability Monitoring CI/CD Python Go Rust PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS Azure GitLab Jenkins

What you'll do

Identify and solve complex distributed scheduling issues to optimize build performance.
Develop caching strategies to enhance efficiency in large-scale software builds.
Ensure the correctness of builds by implementing robust testing and validation processes.
Use data analysis to measure impact and drive continuous improvements in reliability.
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
Lead architectural decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term system stability.

What we're looking for

5+ years of software engineering experience in developer tooling or backend systems
Experience developing and operating production environments using metrics and telemetry
Ownership of high-scope project delivery from definition to completion
Proven ability to mentor engineers through code review and design guidance
Expertise in distributed systems, scheduling, caching, concurrency, or performance optimization
Knowledge of build systems like Swift Build, Bazel, Buck, etc.
Experience with observability, monitoring, SRE practices, and AI-assisted development tools

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