Software Engineer, Distributed Build Systems

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Diego, CA
Salary: $122,700–$214,300 / yr
Posted: 148 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $168k

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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 · Software Engineer, Distributed Build Systems

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Software Engineer - Distributed Build Systems joins the Software Engineering Developer Productivity team to build and operate a distributed build platform essential for operating system and app delivery. This role involves solving complex distributed systems and build automation challenges by optimizing distributed scheduling, ensuring build correctness, developing caching strategies, and improving overall performance. The engineer will manage the full lifecycle from conception through delivery and operation, creating new features, designing testing strategies, and using data analytics to measure impact and ensure high availability on large-scale infrastructure. Candidates should possess experience in developer tooling, backend, infrastructure, or systems contexts. Preferred skills include distributed systems, scheduling, caching at scale, observability, monitoring, SRE practices, AI-assisted development tools, and familiarity with build systems such as Swift Build, Bazel, or Buck to improve internal software development pipelines.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Build Systems Bazel Buck Swift Build SRE Observability Monitoring Telemetry Data Analytics Infrastructure Caching Scheduling

What you'll do

Optimize distributed scheduling and caching strategies for large-scale build systems.
Develop and implement new features for the internal distributed build platform.
Ensure build correctness and reliability across all operating systems and applications.
Improve overall build performance to accelerate software development cycles.
Create and execute testing strategies for high-availability production systems.
Analyze telemetry and performance data to identify bottlenecks and measure feature impact.
Maintain and support production systems during on-call rotations.

What we're looking for

At least 2 years of software engineering experience in developer tooling, backend, infrastructure, or systems contexts.
Experience developing testing strategies and operating software in production environments.
Ability to use metrics, telemetry, and performance data to evaluate system behavior and identify bottlenecks.
Experience with distributed systems, scheduling, or caching at scale.
Knowledge of observability, monitoring, or SRE practices.
Familiarity with build systems such as Swift Build, Bazel, or Buck.
Ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity.

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