Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple Inc

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Location
Seattle, WA
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$175,000–$308,500 / yr
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7 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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JOB TITLE: Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering The Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering joins the ASE Compute team to build and enhance systems for deploying workloads on Kubernetes clusters. This role involves developing features for container orchestration, improving scalability, availability, and performance, and evolving architecture to support continued growth. The engineer will partner with internal teams to meet specific needs, collaborate with SRE to remediate production issues, and engage with the upstream community to drive requirements. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Golang and experience building core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems, with preferred experience in Kueue or Yunikorn. The work focuses on the underlying infrastructure and controllers that power global services like iCloud, Siri, and Maps, ensuring these applications deliver reliably at scale to end users.

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Skills

Kubernetes Golang Kueue Yunikorn Container Orchestration Distributed Systems Infrastructure SRE Technical Design Architecture

What you'll do

  • Develop features and functionality to enable Kubernetes clusters to meet container orchestration needs.
  • Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of services centered around Kubernetes.
  • Evolve system design and architecture to support continued growth and smooth operations.
  • Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues.
  • Build and enhance core components of Kubernetes with an emphasis on controllers and infrastructure.
  • Engage with the upstream community to drive Apple’s specific requirements.
  • Own technical designs end-to-end from initial architecture tradeoffs through implementation and review.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.
  • Strong experience building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
  • Highly proficient in Golang.
  • Track record of owning technical design end-to-end from design docs and architecture tradeoffs through implementation and review.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
  • Experience with Kueue, Yunikorn, or related technologies to increase efficiency of Kubernetes clusters (preferred).
  • Ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production (preferred).
  • Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders (preferred).

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