Software Engineer - Distributed Build Systems

Apple Inc

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On-site
Location
San Diego, CA
Salary
$120,300–$210,100 / 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 · Software Engineer - Distributed Build Systems

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As a Software Engineer on Apple's Developer Productivity team, you will join a collaborative environment focused on enhancing the company’s distributed build platform, which is critical for developing and delivering operating systems and apps to billions of customers. Your daily responsibilities include optimizing distributed scheduling, ensuring build correctness, implementing caching strategies, and continuously improving build performance through data analytics. You will work with large-scale infrastructure, develop new features, and measure outcomes to enhance system reliability and minimize disruptions during production support. This role requires a strong background in systems engineering, experience with complex distributed systems problems, and expertise in developer tooling or backend contexts. Familiarity with technologies such as Swift Build, Bazel, Buck, observability tools, and AI-assisted development is preferred, ensuring you can contribute effectively to solving intricate challenges at Apple’s scale.

Skills

Distributed Systems Caching Scheduling Observability Monitoring CI/CD Python Go Java JavaScript Shell AWS GCP Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Redis Git Bazel Swift_Build Buck

What you'll do

  • Develop and optimize distributed scheduling for Apple's build platform.
  • Ensure correctness in builds by implementing robust caching strategies.
  • Continuously measure and analyze data to enhance system reliability.
  • Tackle complex problems to improve the efficiency of build pipelines.
  • Collaborate with teams to deliver highly available solutions on large infrastructures.
  • Drive improvements through data analytics, ensuring minimal production interruptions.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years of software engineering experience in developer tooling, backend, infrastructure, or systems contexts.
  • Experience developing testing strategies and operating software in production environments using metrics to evaluate system behavior.
  • Strong background in distributed systems, scheduling, or caching at scale.
  • Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and SRE practices.
  • Familiarity with build systems like Swift Build, Bazel, Buck.
  • Ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools for productivity.

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