Systems Software Developer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted
94 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $176k
This role $214k
$113k most similar roles pay here $295k

This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $137,688–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 · Systems Software Developer

As a Systems Software Developer, you will join a cross-functional engineering team focused on building infrastructure and tooling to support complex projects. You will design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows while developing instrumentation and reporting systems to track build health and developer productivity metrics. Your daily work involves debugging deployment infrastructure, improving signal-to-noise in reports, and integrating AI-assisted workflows into development cycles. The role requires building internal tools and APIs that integrate with the engineering stack, including Swift-based workflows. You will utilize technologies such as Python, shell scripting, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Buildkite, Xcode, and CMake. This position addresses technical challenges in build engineering, software architecture, and developer tooling to ensure large-scale projects remain reliable and scalable while solving problems related to computer vision, video processing, and machine learning data infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows.
  • Develop instrumentation and reporting systems to track build health and developer productivity metrics.
  • Debug and resolve failures across build, test, and deployment infrastructure.
  • Implement AI-assisted and agentic workflows to accelerate development and validation cycles.
  • Build internal tools and APIs that integrate with Xcode and Swift-based workflows.
  • Translate system requirements into robust, maintainable infrastructure and processes.
  • Develop low-level software and algorithms to support large-scale engineering projects.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor of Science degree.
  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining production software systems and applications.
  • Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated build or test workflows.
  • Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL in production environments.
  • Proficiency in Python and shell scripting for automation and workflow tooling.
  • Experience with technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, or Buildkite.
  • Experience developing with Swift, Xcode, CMake, or other Apple platform technologies.

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