Senior Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$175,000–$308,500 / yr
Posted
50 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $242k
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This role pays more than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $176,812–$236,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $242k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

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About Apple Inc

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

Apple Inc currently has 1984 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$277,600 across 1590 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering, you will join the ASE Compute team to build and enhance how internal teams deploy workloads on Kubernetes clusters. You will be responsible for developing features for container orchestration, improving the scalability, availability, and performance of services centered around Kubernetes, and evolving architecture to support growth while ensuring smooth operations. Your daily work involves collaborating with SREs to triage production issues and engaging with the upstream community to drive specific requirements into core components like controllers and infrastructure. The role requires proficiency in Golang and experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure engineering, and technologies such as Kueue or Yunikorn. You will solve complex problems related to providing high-availability infrastructure that powers global services like iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps for millions of end users.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 326 postings across 28 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop features and functionality to enable Kubernetes clusters to meet internal team requirements.
  • Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of services centered around Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • Evolve system design and architecture to support growth while ensuring smooth operations.
  • Engage with the upstream community to drive Apple's specific requirements for core Kubernetes components.
  • Partner with SRE teams to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues.
  • Build and scale core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
  • Implement technologies like Kueue or Yunikorn to increase the efficiency of Kubernetes clusters.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in distributed systems, container orchestration, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong experience building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
  • Proficiency in Golang is required.
  • Experience with Kueue, Yunikorn, or related technologies to increase efficiency of Kubernetes clusters is preferred.
  • Ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production.
  • Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.

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