Software Development Engineer, Distributed Systems

What you'll do

• Design and develop control plane components for a large-scale multi-site cloud compute platform.
• Develop, debug, and maintain key features of a compute control plane service.
• Write and review production-ready code and technical design documentation.
• Participate in software qualifications and rollouts to production clusters.
• Respond to platform issues during a rotation to ensure same-day resolution.
• Integrate hardware and software technologies from various teams into the platform.
• Engage with partners and customers to define and clarify Apple's compute needs.

What we're looking for

• BS in Computer Science or related field with 6+ years of experience, MS with 4+ years, or PhD with 2+ years.
• Demonstrated ability to design, debug, and test complex software systems.
• Experience in software development for distributed systems, critical internet services, and/or platform infrastructure.
• Understanding of distributed systems, database concepts, and core operational concepts like monitoring and incident management.
• Understanding of performance analysis methodologies.
• Experience developing control planes for critical internet services or platform infrastructure (preferred).
• Expertise in solving scheduling problems such as quota management, fair share, and placement (preferred).
• Knowledge of operating systems, datacenter architecture, Golang, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Zookeeper, and etcd (preferred).