Senior Software Release Engineer, Private Cloud Computing

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $171,600–$302,200 / yr
Posted: 37 days ago

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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 Release Engineer, Private Cloud Computing

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As a Senior Software Release Engineer on Apple Service Engineering’s Private Cloud Compute team, you will lead the development and maintenance of test strategies, automation infrastructure, and validation frameworks for complex distributed systems. Your daily responsibilities include managing build pipelines, automating staged rollouts, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the quality and reliability of next-generation datacenter technology built on Apple Silicon. You will leverage expertise in large-scale build systems, CI/CD practices, and C++/Swift/Python toolchains to drive critical testing initiatives and resolve complex system issues efficiently. This role demands a deep understanding of hardware-software integration and experience with energy efficiency and performance profiling techniques for high-performance computing workloads, making it ideal for senior engineers passionate about pioneering new systems in the cloud infrastructure space.

Skills

CI/CD Python C++ Swift Kubernetes Terraform AWS Git Jenkins Docker PostgreSQL AppleSilicon GPUs NPUs Prometheus Grafana Ansible Chef

What you'll do

Drive daily build qualification and recommend staging for production releases
Own the build pipeline for large language models on Private Cloud Compute
Manage model weights across operating system release trains efficiently
Automate staged rollouts for OS and Private Cloud Compute releases
Lead incident response and conduct postmortems for inference release issues
Collaborate with multiple teams to adapt, validate, and scale software on new platforms

What we're looking for

10+ years of experience in release engineering and production releases
Expertise with large-scale build systems and C++/Swift/Python toolchains
Proficiency in CI/CD at scale with cost optimization and flake reduction strategies
Track record of shipping on tight deadlines tied to OS or hardware launches
Experience validating ML or LLM workloads on hardware accelerators like Apple Silicon
Familiarity with Apple development tools, Swift, or Objective-C
Knowledge of energy efficiency and performance profiling for high-performance computing

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