Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple Inc

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On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$139,500–$258,100 / yr
Posted
56 days ago
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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/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

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As part of the Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Compute team, you will join a world-class engineering group focused on enhancing Kubernetes clusters for teams across Apple. Your primary responsibilities include developing features to meet diverse container orchestration needs, improving scalability and performance of Kubernetes-based services, and collaborating with Site Reliability Engineers to address production issues. You will work closely with the upstream community to drive requirements and build core components such as controllers to optimize efficiency. Ideal candidates have at least 5 years of experience in distributed systems and Kubernetes engineering, proficiency in Golang, and a deep understanding of technologies like Kueue or Yunikorn. This role requires strong communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts effectively across multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Kubernetes Golang Kueue Yunikorn Docker CI/CD Prometheus PostgreSQL AWS SRE Git Python Shell_scripting Linux REST_APIs JSON Scalability Availability Performance_optimization

What you'll do

  • Design and implement features for Kubernetes clusters to meet diverse deployment needs.
  • Enhance the scalability, availability, and performance of services based on Kubernetes.
  • Optimize the architecture to support continuous growth in customer demand.
  • Collaborate with SRE teams to resolve production issues efficiently.
  • Engage with upstream communities to integrate Apple’s requirements into Kubernetes.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in distributed systems, container orchestration, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong experience with building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
  • Highly proficient in Golang.
  • Experience with Kueue, Yunikorn, or related technologies to increase efficiency of Kubernetes clusters preferred.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
  • Ability to drive a project from idea to production.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.

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